Steve’s Barbershop

Just brought my son here to get a long-​needed haircut and Steve was great! I love when barbershops have photos up on the wall of different haircuts you could pick from. Makes it much easier for a mom. Steve not only did a great job, he engaged in appropriate conversation with my son and was quite charming with me. Yes, I’ll be bringing my son here for a haircut again and might even convince my husband to leave his barber in far away Jackson Heights to come get his hair cut by Steve.

This is by far the best haircuts Ive ever received and I live in 2 other cities, the conversations are great and the barbers are all talented.

I’m customer at this place for already one year and always been satisfied, Steve is professional barber with big experience and knows what he is doing :)

Great cut, awsome service. I’m definately coming back.
Steve is very good at what he does.
I’ve tried other shops in the area and they dont come close to the quality that i got from Steve and his crew.

Al is the man. Always a jokester with me and always gets me talking (i dont talk alot when i get a cut). I like the place may be crapped but its a great place and now a days who can beat their price for a cut?

I’ve been going to this place for many years. Steve is probably one of the coolest and down-​to-​earth people I’ve ever met. Although it’s a relatively small barbershop, can’t beat the price and service offered here! Coming after 5PM always seems to beat the crowd. I would definitely recommend it.

I am a regular at this place for a long time many years actually the owner is always there is a cool guy it looks like he is close W the customers well it looks like he knows every customers by there name this place is pack 70% of the time wen i go there there is always young customers men and women and they always have some girls or lady’s waiting for there turn Lol well is a good place for me i cant complain about it and the price for a hair cut is always $ 10 i think $ 10 is the average for a hair cut on this area

So I got a haircut from Zohan, I mean… Steve. Actually a shape-up…here’s how it went down.
I was in the neighborhood, my last day in NY, about to hit up my storage. Gathering up my last moment stuff, putting other stuff away for another month or so. And I wanted to look fresh for my last day with my lady and my peoples. So I remembered, the last time I was in the area I had asked a pizzeria guy where I could get a decent cut, he told me make a left on 96^th bla bla bla…
ON TO THE EXPERIENCE…
I walk in. Three barbers on the right side. Back chair: Puerto Rican looking dude, giving an urban cut. Middle chair: Russian [or Former Soviet Territory, judging by his last name] dude giving a shapeup and shave. Front chair: THE BIG HOMIE ZOHAN… I mean Steve. On the left side there were three chairs, but one hairdresser. I don’t know women’s hair too well, but she had two girls waiting, and when one left she gave her a hug so… I’m guessing she was nice with it.
The back barber was doing his thing, I could see him giving the client a good fade. The middle barber has a weird old school ethic to his style, despite looking no more than 25. He solidified my suspicions with a hot towel + lotion treatment before his client’s shave… and then get this… DUDE PULLS OUT A VIBRATOR, no seriously, let me explain. I’ve never, ever, ever seen this. It plugged into the wall, and looks like a three muskeeters bar with a strap that goes over his hand. So he turns it on, and his hand shakes wildly, but then he kinda gave the guy a massage on the neck /​chest region. IT WAS AWESOME. A little homo-​erotic, but awesome.
Now we have Steve. Steve has the best haircut in the place. A European ever-​so-​slighty-​balding bouffant with probably the best tape up I’ve seen on a Euro cat in a minute. So I’m thinking… okay, the shop’s named after him… he’s got a bangin cut… let’s hope I get him.
A black kid in front of me gets called by Steve… said kid PASSES up and says ‘let him go first’ [referring to me]. FIRST BAD VIBE.
So Steve asks for what I need, I say just a line up. Then starts with EPIC small talk. Kinda like a job interview for a halal cart would sound. I can barely understand him. He’s doing all these flarish /​gaudy moves. Flipping the brush and clippers etc. His confidence is great, his skills not so much.
I don’t need a friend, I don’t need a clown. This is not Benihana. I once traveled from High Street on the A to the last stop in Far Rockaway on the A for a few months to loyally go to a barber. He was that good. And I usually had to wait two hours once I was there too.
Steve /​Zohan, your flashiness did not impress me. That little smack on the stomach you gave me after you pulled off the curtain, had you caught me on a bad day, I would’ve eviscerated you with your own scissors. Don’t badmouth my current NY barber [Juan Francisco from Rubio’s] who on a Tuesday night, stayed 30 minutes after everyone else making sure I got a perfect fade /​shape up /​shave, and who i tipped accordingly. I see why you’re hurting for business with that nonsense you’re doing. Your other barbers got precision and work-​a-​day style, this isn’t a car dealership.
So yeah… next time I’m in the hood… I’ma go to Dona Maria’s for a plate, hit my storage and then go wait for the middle or back chairs… f– outta here with that nonsense.