Inside a basement in Crown Heights, highschool finest associates — and now enterprise companions — Rivki Krinsky and Gitty Cohen turned their passions right into a worthwhile enterprise known as “The Hustle Wig.”
Their shoppers vary from girls who put on wigs for spiritual causes to girls having chemotherapy remedies. The shop homeowners delight themselves on providing snug and inexpensive wigs.
“We sell hat wigs and they’re designed to be worn with any time of hat,” Krinsky stated.
“We actually line the top with a T-shirt fabric so that its super comfortable especially for people who have no hair,” Cohen stated. “They just say that it makes them feel so confident.”
Krinsky and Cohen’s confidence of their enterprise took an incredible hit early Tuesday morning.
That is when cameras caught a person using up on a Citi Bike and breaking into the Brooklyn enterprise not as soon as, however twice. The person was seen on digicam allegedly stealing greater than $35,000 value of provides, together with among the human hair that was going for use to create a brand new line of wigs.
The person could possibly be seen taking no matter he may get his arms on: from a light-up signal that reads “Hustle” to a latest cargo of actual human hair that took three months to reach.
“Recently the price of hair and wigs have gone up significantly so it makes sense that somebody would know that hair and wigs are a high-cost item,” stated Cohen.
Whereas the ladies of The Hustle Wig hustle to get their prospects’ wig orders again on monitor, they acknowledge the theft is a “big setback” for them. They’re hoping somebody can establish the unmasked thief earlier than he strikes one other small enterprise.
“I hope that they can find him and hold him responsible,” stated Krinsky.
When reached for remark, the NYPD stated an investigation was ongoing.
