Monday is going to be a great hair day in New York City!

Huge Apple barbershops and salons are making ready to go all-out as the city enters Stage Two of reopening from its coronavirus closure Monday — with one owner even placing up a DJ booth and a bar to celebrate.

“Drinks are ready to go. You just cannot spell barbershop without having ‘bar,’” explained Alex Shamuelov, co-owner of Ace of Cuts barbershop in the East Village.

To toast the metropolis coming again to life, he designs to offer you consumers refreshments from a thoroughly stocked bar inside of the shop on East 6th Street in the vicinity of Avenue A, and set up an outside DJ desk, he mentioned.

“Our customers just cannot hold out. They’ve been telling us how considerably they skip us. I cannot hold out to see most people, how substantially hair has developed on their heads, and what I’m going to renovate them into.”

The city’s considerably-expected second reopening period — which also lets outside dining at dining places, in-particular person retail procuring and open up playgrounds — arrived not a minute as well shortly for some New Yorkers, who say they’ve been plagued by perpetual terrible hair days.

“I’ve been trimming and using care of split ends myself, but I’ve done no styling in any way. It’s a disaster,” said Elizabeth Quick, a 22-12 months-old college student in the East Village, whose shoulder-length brown hair has turn out to be dry and unruly.

“I’ve really a lot resigned myself to putting it up in a bun or ponytail,” she additional. “I’m looking forward to finally wearing it down and emotion quite yet again.”

Salon and barbershop owners will, however, have to navigate new coronavirus regulations. The chop outlets can only reopen at 50 percent capability and shoppers have to be held 6-feet absent from anyone but their stylist.

Tim Toohey, proprietor of the new salon-barbershop hybrid Community Picture NYC, reported he’s carried out “a million small things” this kind of as obtaining tubs of hand sanitizer and masks for consumers, alongside with rearranging the reception space to give shoppers extra room.

And he’s “super excited” to finally commence lopping off locks at the West 27th Street studio in Chelsea — which was intended to open up in April but was delayed by the pandemic.

“I’m hearing from folks who simply cannot wait around to take care of the botched haircut their partner or pal tried using on them,” he mentioned.

Other barber outlets proprietors stated they planned to separate chairs with see-through plastic curtains at the very least 6 ft aside, and to use signal-up sheets to inspire customers not to linger within the company.

In the meantime, proprietors of Manhattan eateries had been gearing up Sunday for the return of outside dining.

Brendan McElroy, controlling associate of St. Dymphna’s Irish pub, was placing up 5 tables outside the business in anticipation of additional men and women becoming out and about.

“This is fundamentally likely to provide some sort of position for a limited quantity of clients to sit and appreciate some beverages,” McElroy explained at the watering gap, which serves pub grub on Avenue A in the vicinity of East Seventh Avenue. “Any sort of return to normalcy, as small as it may perhaps be, is thrilling at this issue.”

He extra, “We have an in-home carpenter who’s likely to be producing customized flower boxes to enclose tables and to block off street traffic, and develop a minimal patio.”

The house owners of other eateries stated they strategy to tweak usual dining procedures to make them a lot more germ-harmless.

“New Yorkers want their social existence back… but their routines have improved. So for instance we will not be providing menus at tables,” explained Paolo Rossi, co-operator of Giano cafe on East Seventh Road in the East Village.

In its place, consumers will be in a position to scan a bar code to accessibility the menu on their cellphones to stay away from touching just about anything that tends to make them unpleasant, he claimed.

Omar Tawakol, handling associate at the East Village hookah bar Horus Cafe, said he options to reopen with 6 to 8 outside tables.

“We are heading to maintain it sanitary. I have in excess of 250 hookahs, and I’m going to make sure that no hookah gets employed twice in the same day, to get rid of any probability of contamination,” he explained. “A ton of bars went out of business enterprise for the duration of this pandemic … So the persons that are nonetheless in organization, they are hustlers.”

The reopening preparations arrived as Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday claimed New York state’s coronavirus metrics are “on the appropriate route,” with fewer than one particular percent of the 67,526 assessments administered in New York state coming again good.

Less than Period 2 of the state’s reopening system, vehicle dealerships and real estate services may also open up, together with houses of worship at 25 percent capacity.