Barbershop Space with Essential Amenities in East Village.
about this space
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.
what's included
- 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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how to book this space
- 01
Check the shell and the dates
Review the gallery, 51 sqm floor plan and amenities for Barbershop Space with Essential Amenities in East Village, then note the window you want in New York. Fashion week dates book 6–10 weeks out.
- 02
Send the brief
Use the request panel on this page to send your dates, expected footfall and budget. The listed rate is a starting point at €2588 per day.
- 03
Get availability and a quote
We confirm availability with the operator and come back within 24 hours with the all-in cost: rent, staffing, permits and fit-out for New York.
- 04
Lock the contract
Sign the short-term licence, pay the deposit and we register any permit or signage paperwork the address needs.
- 05
Build and open
Fit-out, install and staff the pop-up. Our production team handles delivery, install and the strike at the end of the run in New York.
use cases
location
getting here & street life
nearest transit
- 1st Avenuemetro592 m · 7 min
- 2nd Avenuemetro634 m · 8 min
- Saint Marks Place & Avenue Abus · M8112 m · 1 min
- Avenue A & East 5th Streetbus · M14A-SBS123 m · 2 min
- Avenue A & Saint Marks Placebus · M14A135 m · 2 min
- Avenue A & East 9th Streetbus · M14A155 m · 2 min
the neighbourhood
Tompkins Square Park is a 10.5-acre (4.2 ha) public park in the Alphabet City portion of East Village, Manhattan, New York City. The square-shaped park, bounded on the north by East 10th Street, on the east by Avenue B, on the south by East 7th Street, and on the west by Avenue A, is abutted by St. Marks Place to the west. The park opened in 1834 and is named for Daniel D. Tompkins, Vice President of the United States.
- Club Cumming · 44 m
- SideWalk Cafe · 66 m
- Pyramid Club (New York City) · 71 m
- King Tut's Wah Wah Hut (New York City) · 73 m
- Knitting Factory · 74 m
- Ray's Candy Store · 77 m
frequently asked
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.
who it suits
Brand Scale
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.
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