The storied baths are housed in the basement of an East Village tenement. Women were allowed just one day a week until the 1980s, when Mr. Tuberman and Mr. Shapiro gradually made nearly every day coed. | Viewing NYC

Inside the 124-Year-Old Russian and Turkish Baths in the East Village

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The storied baths are housed in the basement of an East Village tenement. Women were allowed just one day a week until the 1980s, when Mr. Tuberman and Mr. Shapiro gradually made nearly every day coed.