NYC Reopens

The Waiting List for $1,000 Haircuts Is Ballooning in Manhattan

Masks, gloves and a 1,000-person wait-list: A posh midtown hair salon prepares to reopen with its pre-Covid prices intact.

Hair stylist Julien Farel in East Hampton, ready for a house call.

Editor’s Note: No city is more important to America’s economy than New York, and none has been hit harder by the coronavirus. “NYC Reopens” examines life in the capital of capitalism as the city takes its first halting steps toward a new normal.

It sounds a little preposterous, even in the best of times: $1,000 for a haircut.