Freestyle Barber Shop
Freestyle Barber Shop
165 West 25th StreetNew York, NY 10001
212 206 0918
M-F 8:30am-7pm; Sa 9am-7pm
Eddy, the owner of Freestyle Barber Shop, has been a barber since the early 1980s. He got his start in his homeland of Russia, a country that I learned is known for barbers, thanks to their advanced equipment and scissor skills.
In 1995, Eddy and his brother started a barbershop on Seventh Avenue, around the corner from his current location. Since then, he has never strayed from Chelsea. He opened Freestyle Barber Shop in 2005, keeping many of his regular customers with him. He is proud to say that he has had many of the same barbers working on his team for fifteen or sixteen years. “The crew is very friendly,” he told me. “And I like my customers.”
When I visited in 2016, Eddy had just performed a renovation on the shop – and it looked beautiful. Despite the fact that there are so many salons and barbershops in Chelsea, Eddy is not worried about Freestyle’s ability to survive. “People in the area know us – we’ve been here for twenty-one years,” he said. “You don’t find other barbershops where the same people have been working here this long.”