David's Barber Shop — Local services in New York

This was by far the worst haircut experience i've ever had in my life. I walked in to the shop at about 6:30, a half hour before they closed, and I saw 4 people sitting down and waiting. I figured they wouldn't want to take any more clients, so I began to leave, but a man in the back waved me in and said he would take me. He soon tapped me on the shoulder to let me know to come over, so I came over to sit. The chair was covered in the hair from the man who had sat down just before me, and I had to brush the chair off with my hand just so I wouldn't be sitting on clumps of a stranger's hair. I told the man what I wanted; a 4 on the sides blended into scissors on the top. An incredibly simple cut. He began to cut my hair, and I noticed that he kept wiping his nose with his hand and sniffling. I began to see the streaks of wet snot running along the back of his hand and onto his wrist. I was not happy that I was getting my hair cut by a man with hands visibly wet with snot. None of his scissors were kept in barbicide either, and he pulled his clippers out of his junk drawer in front of him, and they looked greasy with the oils from the hair of dozens of customers before me. He began to make incredibly misogynistic jokes about how after I get my hair cut that I will be able to cheat on my girlfriend, and how he cheats on his wife with his "girlfriend". There are better ways to make your male customers feel like they will look good. I just smiled and nodded through this, brushing it off as much as possible. When he was working on my sides, I felt like I wanted the sides to be just a little shorter, that I think a 3 would be best, and then he stopped and stared at me. He began to raise his voice to me and aggressively tell me that I can't ask for it to be different because they were going to close soon. Even though he was the one who offered to cut my hair that late when I was ready to leave and come back tomorrow. He said "Is this what you do? huh? You go around to Russian barbers and give them a hard time? You go around and ask for something different even though it's almost 8:00 and there's 5 people behind you?" (it was barely 6:45, there were 4 people sitting down and 4 barbers working). Again, he offered to take me in the first place, and sometimes a client wants a minor change during the haircut. He yelled at me in such a way that made the whole barber shop go silent, and I just put my head down and told him that it was fine, that i'll deal with it. I guess i'd have to just go home with a cut I wasn't happy with, and that seemed fine with him. After a minute, he said he would do a 3 on the sides, but to never do what I did again. He went back over it with a 3, and it must have literally taken only 3-4 minutes. He then took a clipper to the top of my head and made it much shorter than I wanted it, then with an attitude said "Is this short enough for you?". I've never been made to feel so guilty from wanting a small change with my haircut, and then he changed it even more in a way that I did not want it to be changed. When he went to put shaving cream on my neck and sideburns after my cut to shave, he rubbed the part of his hand that had the snot on it on the back of my neck with shaving cream. Then, he took a sterile razor out of its packaging and PUT IT IN HIS MOUTH to hold it while he got the handle ready. This was incredibly disgusting, and when he rubbed alcohol on my skin, he only rubbed it on one side of my head. This was the only haircut iv'e ever had where I felt dirty afterwards, and the first thing I did when I got home was wash my whole head and face with antibacterial soap. This was the worst experience iv'e ever had at a barber shop. I work on the Upper East Side and will be going out of my way to tell EVERYONE I know about this horrible experience and warn people to never go to Dave's...

Had my hair massacred by 3 different barbers here. In none of the multiple haircuts I had here has the hair grown in well or naturally, unlike my new barber a 10-minute walk away.

The tall, thin, young barber, when it was my time and I was next in line, refused to say hello, and said "what do you need?" For my haircut, he was rushing so hyper-fast, it was like he was working in fast-forward.

For another haircut I had here, a short, heavy Latino barber, after making small-talk to me in English, at the end of my haircut, then later made a comment in Spanish to a co-worker and laughed. In fairness, I don't know what he said, but he really couldn't have said it in English, or waited a few minutes to speak in Spanish until I got up out of the barber chair? Rude.

It is fantastic that Aaron Judge and Carlos Beltran and other famous people got haircuts here, but if the haircuts are consistently terrible, what does that add up to? This place is all reputation and hype with past celebrity patrons, but it doesn't live up to that reputation. None of the haircuts I had here grew in well within a week or 2 and ended up looking completely out of place and wonky, unlike other barbers in the area.

This place is an assembly line and you are one of a lot of customers who are rushed through for...

Went in to get my undercut reshaved - quick and friendly service, they did a good job. However... they charged $25 for it, which is wildly overpriced, especially considering I was in the chair for less than 4 mins and that's how much you'd pay for a full haircut.

I've also never paid more than $15 anywhere else so for a barbershop that has a reputation for being competitive on price, it felt like a rip-off and quite poor value.

Edit: In reply - literally, the first thing I said when I entered was 'I would like my undercut reshaved'. That's not a haircut. If you would like to charge the same for an undercut reshave as a haircut that's absolutely your right but you could give your customers a heads up accordingly as no other hair salon I've been to in three years of having an undercut and having it reshaved every 4-6 weeks has charged a haircut price for that service so that's probably...