Shaving Toyland in N.Y.C.

If you are in the NY-NJ area just visiting or sightseeing or maybe you live there, you have to visit Pasteurs Pharmacy on 34th street between Madison and Park Avenue in Manhattan. This place has everything that a wet shaver could possibly want or need. They have probably the best selections of Shave Soaps and Creams like: Catie's Bubbles P.A.A., Shaver Heaven, Reef Point, Razorock, Crown King, i Colonali, Le Pere, T.O.B.S., DR. Harris, Tiki Bar, Proraso and Soap Smooth to name a few and their selection of Aftershaves is staggering and the prices are just as good and sometimes better than any online vendor including places like Amazon, West Coast Shaving, Italian Barber, & Maggard Razors to name a few. They also have a great selection of  Shave Brushes, Razors of all kinds and just about every brand of Razor Blades including Gillette, Feather, Sharp Polsilver, Astra, Personna and Voshkod to name a few. They carry razors from Feather, Above the Tie, Ikon, Merkur and they even have The Phoenix Double Open Comb Razor from P.A.A.. They have brushes from Simpsons, Semogue, Omega, Muhle and Vie Long along with Crown King and Fine Accoutrements. The best part is you get to hold these products and smell the different scents before you buy. The owner Leon is a great guy and is sometimes there to talk to you. Just to be clear, I do not work for them or get paid by them. I am just someone who gets pleasure from telling other shaving enthusiasts about any great experiences I have and this is the best of them all. Enjoy!

I was in the neighborhood today by chance and stopped in. This is now artisan heaven. They have all of the above that natal lists and even LPL! Regular, unscented, cedar-patchouli, and rose! In large and small tins, and in plastic bags if you want to buy it without the tin. And every scent of Saponificio Varesino, including the 70th Anniversary Edition and the various matching balms!

I had a chance to smell them and a bunch of other things I'd been curious about. I spent about two hours browsing. Don't if I should be proud or embarrassed that all I left with is a bottle of Lucky Tiger aftershave balm. Trying to be disciplined 

I envy you, I wish I could control myself there.

I visited Pasteurs Pharmacy on Monday when my wife and I were in Brooklyn & NYC for a few days.  I picked up an omega synthetic brush for like $5.  Here's a few photos:

That's great, andrewjs18. I'll make it there someday.

What part of Brooklyn were you in?  That's my hometown.

That's great, andrewjs18. I'll make it there someday.

What part of Brooklyn were you in?  That's my hometown.

We stayed in Park Slope at Hotel Le Bleu.

That's great, andrewjs18. I'll make it there someday.

What part of Brooklyn were you in?  That's my hometown.

We stayed in Park Slope at Hotel Le Bleu.

I haven't been to Park Slope in probably 50 years. I lived in Sheepshead Bay, much closer to the ocean.

That's great, andrewjs18. I'll make it there someday.

What part of Brooklyn were you in?  That's my hometown.

We stayed in Park Slope at Hotel Le Bleu.

I haven't been to Park Slope in probably 50 years.  I lived in Sheepshead Bay, much closer to the ocean.

we had planned on spending some time down where the Coney Island boardwalk is, but when we got down there, everything looked like it was closed down for the season.

That's great, andrewjs18. I'll make it there someday.

What part of Brooklyn were you in?  That's my hometown.

We stayed in Park Slope at Hotel Le Bleu.

I haven't been to Park Slope in probably 50 years.  I lived in Sheepshead Bay, much closer to the ocean.

we had planned on spending some time down where the Coney Island boardwalk is, but when we got down there, everything looked like it was closed down for the season.

Coney Island is, indeed, a very seasonal place. Also, unless it has changed in recent years, it is a shadow of what it used to be when I was a child, though it was always honky-tonk. Sheepshead Bay is two neighborhoods to the east of Coney Island.

That's great, andrewjs18. I'll make it there someday.

What part of Brooklyn were you in?  That's my hometown.

What's the Dunfermline connection?

That's great, andrewjs18. I'll make it there someday.

What part of Brooklyn were you in?  That's my hometown.

What's the Dunfermline connection?

Visiting a friend.

In 1981 due to a flight cancellation I had to stay overnight at a Howard Johnson's in Queen's. I was 15 at the time, and I was coming home from Spain. It was the week that President Reagan got shot, and I got to watch the first space shuttle launch on a coin operated television in the United Terminal at JFK. It was my first trip abroad alone without my parents.

Clayton

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