About
The shop, the chairs,
the people.
Cuts since 2017 — four chairs, six master barbers, on Pine Street in Lower Manhattan.
The Story
A neighborhood shop
run like a press room.
Bowery Barber Co. opened on Pine Street in the spring of 2017 — four restored Belmonts in a storefront that had been a locksmith’s for sixty-two years before we signed the lease. The lock workbench is still bolted to the back wall, repainted; it holds the towel warmer now. The tin ceiling stayed. Everything else, we replaced.
Lower Manhattan was the choice because it’s the part of the island where people still walk to the same places twice a week. A neighborhood barbershop needs neighbors — bartenders, gallerists, paramedics, the architects from the office across the street, the same five guys from the firehouse on Pine. Nine years in, those are the appointments the calendar fills with first.
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We document every cut. A binder by the door holds prints from the last three weeks — flip through it while you wait.
Marco Voss · Founder
The work is straightforward and the menu stays short for a reason. Skin fades, beard sculpts, straight-razor shaves — the things you can do well if you do them every day. We don’t sell pomades on the counter, we don’t run a loyalty app, and the prices on the wall are the prices at the chair. We sharpen the razors weekly, take walk-ins until noon, and try to be the same barbershop on Tuesday morning that we are on Saturday night.
The Chairs
Four chairs.
They have owners.
You can book any chair. Most regulars book the same one twice — that’s how we work. Each chair keeps its own hours, set by the barber who works it, so check the slot before you walk in. Below, who’s behind each chair, what they cut best, and how long they’ve been doing it.
Marco Voss
Chair 01 · Founder · Since 2017
Opened the shop in 2017 after seven years cutting in Greenpoint and one false start as a sound engineer. Specializes in skin fades and the kind of editorial men’s haircut that photographs well in natural light. Cuts on the half hour, Monday through Saturday.
Theo Aguilar
Chair 02 · Cutting since 2012
Twelve years cutting before Bowery, four since. Patient with first-timers, kids, and clients who want the same cut they got the last sixty times. Specializes in the textured crop, classic side-parts, and the everyday business-cut nobody asks for by name.
Jules Reyes
Chair 03 · Cutting since 2015
Came up through theatre — five years cutting and styling for off-Broadway productions before going full-time in 2020. Quietest chair in the shop; books solid by 11am most days. Specializes in straight-razor work, beard sculpts, and the long-haired finishes.
Dante Khoury
Chair 04 · Cutting since 2014
Took over Chair 04 from his uncle in 2019 — same chair, same neighborhood, same uncle’s apron under the counter for luck. Specializes in the full Cut + Beard combo and weddings; books groom parties most weekends in the spring and fall.
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