Quote Originally Posted by russellnyc
According to Google Maps, there are actually 3 stores:

Art of Shaving - 0.7 miles NE - 10 Columbus Cir, New York, 10019 - (212) 823-9410
Art of Shaving - 0.8 miles E - 373 Madison Ave, New York, 10017 - (212) 986-2905
Art of Shaving - 1.4 miles E - 141 E 62nd St, New York, 10021 - (212) 317-8436

I've only been to 373 Madison, and it's pretty small. i.e. too small for you to browse anonymously without talking to everyone in the store. I think the 62nd St. location may be the original, and I recall this place being in the news as far back as '97-'98 when I worked a few blocks away.

Another place in NYC which seems to have a lot of wonderful stuff -- I've walked past it a million times, and lived a few blocks away a lifetime ago -- is C. O. Bigelow Apothecaries, which has apparently been around for 168 years (!). T

Bigelow Chemists, Inc.
414 6th Avenue (around 8th-9th street)
NY NY 10011

They have a wide selection of brushes (but no razors to speak of) and other product (Trumper's, DR Harris, King of Shaves, Proraso, and Acqua di Parma, whose cologne I've had and loved for many years, and whose shaving cream / aftershave balm I admit guiltily that I bought and I'm going to try this morning...). I'm going to make a pilgrimage here at some point and will let you know how it is.
Wow thanks for doing all the research!

I rarely work in NYC but next time I find a reason to go up there I will have to check a few things out!!!