Article: LOSING THEIR STRIPES THE BARBER POLE WILL STOP SPINNING AT STUYVESANT PLAZA NEXT MONTH, AND FIVE BARBERS ARE ANGRY AT BEING PUT OUT OF THEIR JOBS.(LIFE & LEISURE)

Byline: PAUL GRONDAHL Staff writer

The red-white-and-blue barber pole, spinning in the window of the Stuyvesant Plaza Barber Shop since the Guilderland mall opened in 1959, will be stilled next month.

Five barbers, including one who has been cutting hair there since the open-air mall went into business, will be pushed out to make room for Bruegger's Bagel Bakery, which is expanding the eatery opened in 1983.

The barbers being cut loose after more than three decades with roughly three weeks' notice are as steamed as a hot shave.

``This is how they treat us after 35 years? This is inhuman,'' says Osvaldo Riccio, 60, who started at ...

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