Boris Tuperman, the other owner, is old-school and a bit of an enigma. One owner, David Shapiro (alongside his son, Dmitry Shapiro, the general manager), is set on bringing the bath business into the 21st century, and has introduced electronic bookkeeping, Facebook, Twitter, and Groupon and LivingSocial deals. The Baths, which are open 365 days a year, are co-owned by two men who alternate weeks because they refuse to work together. (Spoiler alert: this was not the case - probably because we live in New York, not in a cartoon.) Spa Castle horror stories muddying the local bathhouse industry be damned. I’d walk past the sign that read “Russian & Turkish / Since 1892 / Baths / Health Club,” and imagine hirsute old men in floral shower caps, scrubbing each other’s slouched backs with pink loofahs. The 10th St Baths (as it’s known colloquially) first cropped up on my radar when I was living in Alphabet City.
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