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- 17 E. 71st St., Upper East Side 10021
- 212-535-3519
Sharon Dorram Color at Sally Hershberger
Upper East Side outpost of the $800 shag cut. In a nod to salon partner Sharon Dorram's tony clientele, this limestone townhouse nixes Warhol silkscreens for chandeliers and orchids. Master coloris... read more
- 15 Union Square West, Union Square 10003
- 212-675-5286
Lululemon
Cult yogawear chain complete with creepy manifesto ("children are the orgasm of life") and rabid "ambassadors," willing to drop $100 on pair of roll-top yoga pants. Racerback tanks in eye-popping h... read more
- 66 E. 55th St., Midtown East 10022
- 212-988-7816
Paul Labrecque at CORE
Hair god Paul Labrecque's Midtown outpost in the ultra-exclusive CORE club easily his best. Intimate salon has just two cutting chairs, and a couple of Picassos. Access to the club's rotating membe... read more
- 481 Broadway, Soho 10013
- 212-334-8276
Lululemon
Cult yogawear chain complete with creepy manifesto ("children are the orgasm of life") and rabid "ambassadors," willing to drop $100 on pair of roll-top yoga pants. Racerback tanks in eye-popping h... read more
- 35 E. 76th St., Upper East Side 10021
- 212-660-7560
Sense, A Rosewood Spa at the Carlyle
The Carlyle Hotel's opulent day spa transports guests to a hushed world where all are dressed in fluffy robes, supine on velvet couches, their eyes half-closed. Like an opium den with fresh-lemon s... read more
- 25 Bond St., NoHo 10012
- 212-366-6060
Completely Bare
Hair-hating spa chain hides high-tech lasers behind sweet white-and-gold façade. Lady-only estheticians banish unwanted follicles from anywhere on body via pulsed light. Safely shears suntan... read more
- 1 W. 58th St., 4th fl., Midtown West 10019
- 212-265-3182
Caudalie Vinothérapie Spa at the Plaza
The Plaza's day spa is first of the Caudalie varietal to step foot outside a Euro vineyard. Makes up for lushness lost in urban setting with erotic grape photos, wine-yeast wraps and grape-seed scr... read more
- 377 Greenwich St., Tribeca 10013
- 212-941-8900
Shibui Spa at the Greenwich Hotel
Discretely decadent Japanese spa at De Niro's bed-and-Locande Verde. Authentically Zen: 250-year-old wood-and-bamboo farmhouse painfully reconstructed over lantern-lit pool by arthritic craftsmen w... read more
- 39 W. 54th St., Midtown West 10019
- 212-956-2990
Martial Vivot Salon Pour Hommes
From former pres of the men's division at Paul Labrecque, finally a salon that understands the coarser sex also has right to a double C-note haircut. Patrician MoMA-side location in Paul McCartney/... read more
- 203 E. 86th St., Upper East Side 10128
- 212-360-1888
Pure Yoga
Equinox-owned yoga studio just as slick as its gyms, in a totally namaste way, of course. Twin uptown locations, east and west, shun downward-dogging's dirty-hippie past for Zen-luxe present: cool ... read more
- 2305 Broadway, Upper West Side 10024
- 212-799-0500
Bluemercury
Up from D.C., spunky makeup emporium dusts tasteful layer of body shimmer over Sephora's turf. More intimate and carefully curated than the big S, stocked with the cultish likes of Darphin eye de-p... read more
- 217 Columbus Ave., Upper West Side 10023
- 212-362-2840
Space NK Apothecary
British beauty store hopped the pond armed with plenty of Lipstick Queen's chunky Chinatown pencils. Us Yanks hardly wielded an eyelash wand. Quirky, tightly edited inventory ranges far beyond the ... read more
- 3 Columbus Circle, Ste 730, Midtown West 10019
- 212-977-7771
Shobha
Micro-franchise of threading salons draws on owner's Indian heritage of meticulous eyebrows. Shaming waxing, which Shobha claims stretches skin, here wild hairs are painlessly lassoed away. Sugarin... read more
- 99 Greene St., Soho 10012
- 212-941-4200
Space NK Apothecary
British beauty store hopped the pond armed with plenty of Lipstick Queen's chunky Chinatown pencils. Us Yanks hardly wielded an eyelash wand. Quirky, tightly edited inventory ranges far beyond the ... read more
- 248 Broome St., Lower East Side 10002
- 212-674-8383
Fringe Salon
D.I.Y. beauts too busy knitting cat-eared hats to maintain own bangs flock to this L.E.S. hair parlor. Dop Dop vet brings same level of polished insouciance, minus the shear-shop atmosphere. Warm, ... read more
- 19 Essex St., Lower East Side 10002
- 212-228-7442
Frank's Chop Shop
Barbershop front of downtown connoisseurs Frank151. Retro gangster renovation of LES yarmulke workshop. Checkered linoleum, ‘30s barber chairs, mucho straight razors. Vintage pricing starts a... read more
- 113 Fourth Ave., Union Square 10003
- 212-533-0001
Crunch
New York's homegrown gym chain got start in 1989 East Village basement, a far off time when people did aerobics and wore sweatbands sincerely. Now two decades on, most O.G. Crunchers jumped treadmi... read more
- 841 Broadway, 2nd fl, Union Square 10003
- 212-353-0214
Jivamukti Yoga Center
Warrior One arguably responsible for the fact that even your granny no longer blanches at down-dogging with a roomful of strangers. Fusing vinyasa, self-help Sanskrit, and Beatles music since 1984.... read more
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