New York’s newest attraction: the Central Park barber
By AFP
13 May 2021 |
8:31 am
Shortly after coronavirus shut down New York last spring, Herman James picked up his clippers, headed outside and found himself a new identity: the Central Park barber. A year on, business is good for the 33-year-old, the only known hairdresser and latest attraction in Manhattan's green lung, renowned for its musicians, roller discos and birds.
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