The GW Hatchet · Aug 25, 2025
Ryan J. Karlin
Six local businesses earn $4,000 in Main Street grants
Puglisi’s among six Foggy Bottom and West End storefronts backed by the Main Street program.
Press
As written
As written
about us.
Twenty years of coverage, from a campus paper’s 2004 history to a 2025 mayoral salute. Read the pieces that documented the shop.
District of Columbia · June 16, 2025
A Mayoral Salute
Saluted by
Saluted by
the Mayor.
On June 16, 2025, Mayor Muriel Bowser saluted Puglisi HairCuts for more than 65 years in business in Washington — and thanked Tony Puglisi for a reverence for the past with a vision for the future.
The framed salute hangs in the shop, downstairs at 2040 I Street. Sixty-five years is the number on the certificate; the three addresses are the story behind it.
2019 – 2025
Recent coverage
The GW Hatchet · Oct 2, 2023
Rachel Moon
Broadcast executive and producer, SMPA professor dies at 71
José Domingos and Antonio Puglisi remember Michael Freedman, a weekly visitor and a friend of the shop.
The GW Hatchet · Oct 18, 2021
Meghan O’Neil
Treat yourself at these salons and spas near campus
Recommended for men’s cuts, shaves, and children’s haircuts at 2000 Penn.
DCist · Jun 17, 2019
Matt Blitz
This Italian Immigrant Has Been Barbering In Foggy Bottom For Nearly Sixty Years
“Just listening to people. If they ask for a certain style… do it the way they want.”
WJLA / ABC7 · Jul 31, 2019
Caroline Patrickis
“It only cost $1.50” — sixty years in Foggy Bottom
“My mind says keep cutting (hair), my leg says slow down.”
The GW Hatchet · Apr 29, 2019
Lia DeGroot and Ilena Peng
Businesses relocate in preparation for University building demolition
Tony on the notice from Boston Properties, the extension, and the new lease in the Shops at 2000 Penn.
The GW Hatchet · Mar 21, 2019
Lindsay Paulen
Barbershop to replace Lindy’s Red Lion
Cash-only shop; GW students and former President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg among the clientele.
PoPville · Mar 8, 2019
“Lindy’s Red Lion is now going to be a Puglisi Hair Cuts shop”
Neighborhood tip that the English basement at 2040 I would take the chairs from 2100 Penn.
2004 – 2017
From the archive
The GW Hatchet · Oct 2, 2017
Justine Coleman and Cindy Bae
Small businesses concerned about uncertain future as GW plans investment project
Tony says he will not reopen if he has to leave Foggy Bottom; four GW presidents have sat in the chairs.
AP Photo · Jun 8, 2017
Pablo Martinez Monsivais
Photos of the week
Haircuts carry on at Puglisi’s while the Comey hearing plays on the shop television.
Medium · personal essay
Andrew Figueiredo
A Portuguese-American take on “My Father Left Me Ireland”
A 2017 intern discovers that the barber cutting his hair is the son of the man who cut his grandfather’s hair in Montreal.
The GW Hatchet · Sep 17, 2007
Chloe Shields
Larger-than-life Foggy Bottom barbers tell all
Puglisi’s — famous for cutting Trachtenberg’s hair — offering old-time quality over fancy unisex names.
The Washington Post · May 2007
Scott Elder
Six Barbershops That Make the Cut
Puglisi’s among the Post’s six. A twenty-dollar haircut.
The GW Hatchet · Aug 31, 2005
Ben Koppenheffer
All the president’s facial hair
Trachtenberg’s roughly monthly visits: books, films, current events, never politics.
The GW Hatchet · Jun 20, 2004
Andrea Nurko
Best of GW
The value pick for a men’s haircut; Stephen Joel Trachtenberg and Ben Stein named among the customers.
The GW Hatchet · Mar 29, 2004
Andrew Siddons
Making new waves: the history of Puglisi’s barbershop
Four barbers, a $17 cut, three generations of one family, and fifty ROTC cadets in batches.
“They all put unisex – style, fancy names in order to charge a lot of money, but they don’t do a better job.”Antonio Puglisi · The GW Hatchet, 2007
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