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Available with different base options to best fit your need.''When you have a telephone, people, they call you,'' he explained. ''So-and-so call, 'Is Petey there? Could you see if he's outside.' Then I got to leave the customer. He takes customers in the order they walk in, and even regulars wait their turn silently in shabby vinyl armchairs patched together with masking tape, while he lets those in the barber's chair -- and with his lusty baritone, those waiting, as well -- know his thoughts about the Old World values he holds dear, values like loyalty and respect. desk chairs for bad necksAll the while, he takes slow, tender snips at each customer's hair, surveying his handiwork for balance and composition.wedding folding chairs for rent You go to him not just for the haircut, but for the world seen through one deeply experienced man's eyes, a man who has you imprisoned in a chair for about 15 minutes and knows there's not much else for you to do but listen.wood rocking chair adults

But you also go to him because he is a relic of a neighborhood that is hardly there anymore. The enclave in which Mr. Caponigro lived for his first two decades in this country and in which he still works had 80,000 Italians in 1930, the most famous of whom was Fiorello H. La Guardia. The area, which once extended from Third Avenue to the East River between 96th and 120th Streets, was a thriving Italian village into the 1970's. But largely as a result of a vigorous ethnic mobility, typical of many New York City neighborhoods, it is down to a relative handful of Italians and a handful of Italian stores -- the 110-year-old Morrone Bakery; Patsy's and Rao's restaurants; and Our Lady of Mount Carmel Roman Catholic Church, where a few elderly neighborhood residents go to say their novenas. Ask one of them, Gena Bolino, how many Italians are left and she will respond: ''You can count them.'' In these circumstances, Claudio Barber Shop, in its own tumbledown shack-like building on 116th Street between First and Second Avenues, is a touchstone, its fusty customs and etiquette appealing to people who are not always mesmerized by the siren songs of modern life.

When someone like Mr. Caponigro, 71, does the same job for 50 years, the danger is that he will turn into a museum piece. In fact, Christina Cox, the executive director of the National Museum of Catholic Art and History, which is relocating to a former school and convent in the neighborhood, came by recently to collect artifacts for an exhibition on East Harlem. She asked him for his 110-year-old shoeshine box, a barber's chair, a shaving mug, and some of the bric-a-brac scattered on the walls and mirrors among the dusty bottles of Jevis Hair Tonic and Pinaud Eau de Portugal and pictures of his three daughters and two grandchildren. The singer and actress Jennifer Lopez came by to do a music video in his shop's quaint clutter. Sports Illustrated, deciding to set part of its latest swimsuit issue in Spanish Harlem, featured one photograph of the model Yamila Diaz-Rahi in a red bikini sprawled across one of his chairs. But mostly life goes on in his shop the way it always has.

Peter Guaragno, who was born in the neighborhood 85 years ago, shows up once a week for a shave (as long as there are no horse races that day) just as he has done for 50 years. ''He's the only one I trust,'' Mr. Guaragno said. Mr. Caponigro's values, too, seem untouched by time. He charges $8 a haircut even though a mile south prices of $30 are more common. ''I believe that $8 for this neighborhood is plenty,'' he said. ''A lot of people here are on S.S.I., government assistance. How can I charge more? Those guys charge $20 or $30; today they're here, tomorrow they're out of business. Me, a reasonable price, I'm still here.'' His ethics are such that he never held it against Vito Marcantonio, the legendary left-wing, six-term congressman who represented Italian Harlem, that he used another barber. ''He was my friend, but he was not my customer,'' Mr. Caponigro said. ''Because he never double-crossed his barber on Second Avenue. He was loyal to Mr. Louie Lambarelli. I was proud of him that he was loyal.''

One of the only times he made an exception to his rule that customers wait their turns was when Frank G. Rossetti, the Tammany Hall leader, was in Mount Sinai Hospital and needed a shave and a haircut. He kept six customers waiting while he went to the hospital to tend to the old political boss. ''The son always have respect for me,'' Mr. Caponigro said of Mr. Rossetti's son, Frank S. Rossetti, a State Supreme Court justice. So loyal is he that in one drawer under the mirrored wall he keeps Mass cards for all the customers' funerals he has attended. There are 200 of them. And there are some customers and visitors he remembers with special affection -- Jimmy Durante, the gravel-voiced comedian, and Carmine DeSapio, another Tammany Hall boss. But despite his pride in the politicians who have been in his shop, he says he never discusses politics or religion. ''You want to stay in business all your life, one thing you cannot talk about is politics or religion. Because before you know it you get into an argument.''

For a long time now, most of his customers have been Puerto Rican, like Frank Estrada, 58, who was waiting patiently the other day for his turn under the scissors. ''I brought my son when he was small,'' Mr. Estrada said. ''Now he brings his children here.'' Indeed, Mr. Caponigro has many families like the Estradas whose hair he has cut for three generations, and over the years, he has learned enough Spanish to converse with gusto. ''You pick up a little today, a little tomorrow, soon you speaking the language,'' he said. Mr. Caponigro, a sturdily-built man with gold-rimmed bifocals, was born in 1931 in the town of Campania in the province of Salerno. He was in the Salerno area when it was occupied by the Nazis and bombed by the Americans in 1943, and he saw women and children killed. He hailed from a family of barbers, including his father and brother, so toward the end of the war, at age 14, he started his own barber shop. When he was 20, he immigrated to the United States.

''I find a lot of pleasure, a lot of beautiful people in this neighborhood,'' he said. ''I find a second Salerno here.'' There were two or three barbers on every block, he remembers, perhaps through the distorting lens of nostalgia. When the Italian population began declining as the younger generation sought homes in the suburbs, and crime and drugs nipped at the streets, Mr. Caponigro stayed. ''Everybody's got a rolling gate,'' he said, referring to the security devices on nearby storefronts. ''I don't need a rolling gate. I don't have no enemies. Although Mr. Caponigro moved his family to the Bronx in 1969, he saw no need to move his shop. He was making a living. And now that there are glimmers of new affluence -- houses that he remembers could be purchased for $10,000 are now going for $500,000 -- he will certainly stay. ''If I got to go away from here, I retire,'' he said. ''I don't be a barber no more. ''The Spanish people, they say, 'Claudio, you got to stay forever.'