{
  "source": "Fashion Week Venues",
  "title": "Barbershop Space with Essential Amenities in East Village",
  "description": "This commercial space is ideally situated across the street from Tompkins Square Park in the East Village. The barbershop comes equipped with essential amenities, including internet access, air conditioning, and a security system, ensuring a comfortable and secure environment. The layout features fitting rooms, counters, and a garment rack, making it well-suited for various operational needs. Additional utilities include lighting, sound and video equipment, heating, and electricity, which facilitate a functional workspace. For convenience, there is also a stock room, kitchen, and elevator access. The property includes parking and reliable Wi-Fi, enhancing the overall offering for potential tenants.",
  "idealBrandProfile": "This 51 sqm basement space fits an independent brand with a 3 to 15 person team, roughly 2 to 6 years of trading, and an established DTC following or a small wholesale book of 10 to 40 doors. The footprint holds one merchandised wall, a counter, fitting rooms and a stock room without feeling thin, which is exactly the scale a brand running its own activation with two or three staff can operate credibly. Occupancy of around 55 means intimate guest lists rather than open-door traffic, so a brand needs a mailing list it can actually convert rather than reach. Where we see mismatches is when a heritage house or a listed group books a basement of this size for a seasonal press push and finds it cannot host press, wholesale and VIP in the same window. Equally, a pre-revenue label with no audience will struggle to justify a Manhattan day rate at this level and would be better placed testing a shared format first. Brands needing 150 sqm plus should compare other spaces in New York before enquiring here. Aesthetic Fit The visual language that lands here is downtown, raw and lived-in: streetwear, denim, workwear, graphic apparel, skate and music-adjacent labels, tattoo and grooming brands, indie fragrance, jewellery and vintage archive sellers. It is a former barbershop and bar in a basement across from Tompkins Square Park, sitting metres from Pyramid Club and Club Cumming, so the room already carries East Village subcultural credibility that a brand can lean into rather than fight. Existing counters, garment rack, furniture and installed lighting and sound support a shop-in-shop or club-room treatment cheaply. What does not work is polished luxury: quiet-luxury tailoring, fine jewellery at high price points, or clinical minimalist beauty presentations will read as displaced in a low-ceilinged basement with fixed fixtures, and the cost of stripping the room back to a neutral white box erodes the value of booking it. Brands wanting gallery neutrality should look elsewhere or plan a full production and build from the outset. Best Use Cases First choice is a short-run pop-up shop or temporary retail space, because counters, fitting rooms, garment rack and stock room mean you can trade from day one with minimal build. Second is a content studio or photo and video shoot, supported by installed lighting, sound and video equipment, heating and elevator access for kit. Third is an influencer event or cocktail reception, where the bar layout, basement acoustics and Avenue A nightlife context do the atmospheric work for you. Fourth is a sample sale, which suits the fitting rooms, stock room and one-day minimum lease. Fifth is a showroom presentation or collection preview for wholesale appointments, workable for a compact capsule but tight for a full multi-category buy. Sixth is a workshop or small art exhibition and gallery showing, where the intimacy is an asset. Seventh is a press day, viable only for a single-category launch given the room size. Budget Signal This sits at the upper-mid tier for East Village short-term commercial space, priced above what the sqm alone suggests and reflecting location, licensing history and the fact the room is fully fitted. Compared with a prime SoHo or Bowery ground-floor storefront of similar size, it is meaningfully cheaper but trades street visibility for atmosphere, so it rewards brands driving their own audience rather than relying on passing footfall. Against a hotel event space it is better value for anything retail, since hotels rarely offer fitting rooms, stock storage or a garment rack and usually impose F&B minimums. Against co-working or shared pop-up formats it costs more but gives you full brand control and a genuine fashion week venue address near Tompkins Square Park. In our experience the profile that gets the most from this space books three to seven consecutive days and layers retail, content and an evening event into one budget line; run the numbers through our budget calculator before committing.",
  "faq": [
    {
      "question": "Is Barbershop Space with Essential Amenities in East Village available for pop-up shops?",
      "answer": "Yes — Barbershop Space with Essential Amenities in East Village is a vetted pop-up ready space in New York, 51 sqm. Request availability and dates through the inquiry card on the listing."
    },
    {
      "question": "What is the day rate?",
      "answer": "$3,000 / day. Weekly and press-preview rates are quoted on request."
    },
    {
      "question": "Is staging, branding and fit-out permitted?",
      "answer": "Yes. Fashion Week Venues runs the full production build — signage, fixtures, lighting, sound, catering and staffing — subject to venue rules. Include your fit-out brief in the inquiry."
    },
    {
      "question": "What is included?",
      "answer": "Included on-site: Internet, Air Conditioning, Security System, Stock Room, Counters, Fitting Rooms, Garment Rack, Lighting."
    },
    {
      "question": "How far in advance should we book?",
      "answer": "Fashion week windows book 6–10 weeks out. Off-season activations can be secured in 2–3 weeks."
    }
  ],
  "editorialFaqCount": 0,
  "city": "New York",
  "country": "US",
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  "lon": -73.98303895,
  "areaSqm": 51,
  "areaSqft": 550,
  "priceLabel": "$3,000 / day",
  "priceEur": 2588,
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    "Internet",
    "Air Conditioning",
    "Security System",
    "Stock Room",
    "Counters",
    "Fitting Rooms",
    "Garment Rack",
    "Lighting",
    "Furniture",
    "Sound & Video Equipment",
    "Electricity",
    "Heating",
    "Parking",
    "Elevator",
    "Kitchen",
    "Wifi"
  ],
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    "pop up store",
    "retail activation",
    "showroom presentation",
    "art exhibition",
    "gallery showing",
    "product launch",
    "brand activation",
    "influencer event",
    "content creation",
    "photo shoot",
    "video production",
    "workshop",
    "networking event",
    "corporate event",
    "private event",
    "cocktail reception",
    "trunk show"
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