By 2018, he was ready to open his own shop. Guerra said he researched online about licenses and how to open a barber shop. He hasn’t had any issues dealing with the city’s bureaucracy. His biggest ...

While in barber school, White also met and got to know the three other barbers who currently work at Hero. “I kind of recognized the talent,” he said.

I gotta work for myself,'" he said. And he did. Aliano ran the shop from 1959 to 2012, when he sold the more than 100-year-old business to Vicky Elias, who had been working with him since the '90s.