Photo Of The Day: 7th Avenue Goes Back To 1981

The movie A Most Violent Year, starring Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac, was filming this afternoon inside The Park Slope Barber, which our neighbor Keith Williams of The Weekly Nabe can tell you is probably a good location for the film, which takes place in the winter of 1981.

Keith recently wrote a great post on the barbershop, noting that it moved to this space from across the street (where Mr. Falafel is now) in 1974, and that the “barbershop is a reminder of a Park Slope that slowly fades each time a fro-yo shop or a trendy clothier evicts a mom-and-pop restaurant or a longtime dive bar.”

We hope everyone had a good time recreating the past for a few moments today, and we look forward to seeing the barbershop’s cameo in the film. But if you want to get that old New York feeling anytime, stop by the space at 223 7th Avenue for a cut, a shave, or just to say hi.

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