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5. Honey Salon. From scalp treatments to natural hairstyles, this Harlem salon offers a wide range of services. You’ll find a collection of products catered to curly hair and a team of ...
The New-York Directory, published in 1786, was the first extant directory for New York City and the third published in the United States.It listed 846 names. A year earlier, the first two in the country were published in Philadelphia – the first, compiled by Francis White, was initially printed October 27, 1785, [1] [2] [3] and the second, compiled by John Macpherson (1726–1792), was ...
Area code 212 is one of the original North American area codes assigned by AT&T in 1947, originally serving all five boroughs of New York City.Area codes were assigned based on the volume of traffic and the speed of dialing the code on a rotary electromechanical dial phone, so that the higher the volume of traffic, the less time it took to dial the area code.
[citation needed] John Barrett was the first salon to introduce the concept of a braid bar in 2011 and received a lot of media coverage for it. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Three editors from the People magazine went to the braid bar in 2013 and reviewed that, "The three of us got so many compliments that it made the cost seem totally worth it."
Rose Meta Morgan (August 9, 1912 – December 16, 2008) was the owner and operator of the largest beauty parlor for African American women. She was also among the founders of New York's only black-owned commercial bank, the Freedom National Bank .
The New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) is the department of the New York City government that enforces the city's building codes and zoning regulations, issues building permits, licenses, registers and disciplines certain construction trades, responds to structural emergencies and inspects over 1,000,000 new and existing buildings.
Rose was born to a Jewish family in Jerusalem [1] one of six siblings. [1] His family immigrated in the 1890s [2] and he then worked as a sales catalog buyer for a clothing store working in the Garment District in New York City [2] when - inspired by an uncle who purchased real estate [3] - he founded Roses Associates with his brother, Samuel B., in 1927. [1]
Doyers Street looking toward Pell Street in 2014. Doyers Street follows the old route of a stream. [4] From 1893 to 1911, 5–7 Doyers Street was the site of the first Chinese language theater in New York City.