The building that Beauty Bar on East 14th Street near 2nd Avenue is located in was once the headquarters of the Italian Labor Center and also served as the home base for the Cloakmakers Union. The building dates back to 1919 when the neighborhood had a sizable Italian population and even had its own Little Italy 🇮🇹.
The marble signage for the Italian Labor Union can still be seen on the facade and it also has two unique bas reliefs which are not identical to each other. The carving on the right depicts a man (a worker with a shovel), woman, and a peaceful baby. On the carving on the left the woman’s hair is electrified and her face is contorted in pain. Her child is scrambling from her in terror and her husband is in the background, hard at work digging or plowing, seemingly oblivious to the turmoil.
We just stopped by @thebeautybarnyc earlier today to check out their Halloween 🎃 display in the #storefront window and said hi to @brockmichaelnyc who is tending bar this evening and who told us that Beauty Bar just announced they will now be open Wednesday-Sunday. Due to the pandemic, after they reopened they previously had scaled back their hours, so w were happy to hear this news!
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