Johnny’s Chop Shop Opens First U.S. Location

“Five years ago, we put London-Brooklyn on our first draft logos and my business partner and I said, ‘Wouldn’t that be cool one day?’” said Johnny’s Chop Shop founder Steven Ross. “Fast-forward five years, I’m sitting here doing this. There’s a sense of irony there.” The dream has come true with the opening of the first Johnny’s Chop Shop U.S. location, in New York City at 154 Grand Street in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. The 700-square-foot barbershop mirrors the design of the U.K. outpost, with checker-patterned floors and vintage elements. Ross, who was responsible for the interior design, spent hours scouring the Internet for finds, and shipped counters, chairs, a pinball machine, and a neon tiger sign from England to be installed in the shop. “I’m passionate about interiors,” he said. What sets the U.S. shop apart from its brother store across the pond in London is that it features artwork that nods to England, whereas the shop in England nods to the U.S. “It mirrors the U.K. in terms of its interior — the mirrors, the neon tiger — but in the U.K. the references are more U.S.-based, meaning we have Stars-and-Stripes flags, we’ve got old Jeeps instead of London buses,” said

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