Early in the evening, Laura Lee Gulledge, a body painter, observed over her shoulder that "glitter is the herpes of the craft world," as she blew red glitter on the arm of Naomi Ruth, 30, a poet who had moved into the space two weeks earlier (rent: $800).
But you're still paying the council £300 a month for the earlier rent arrears - which means you are left with £114.33 a month to subsist on.
Two of the barbers were relatively new: Quentin Seepersad, 35, had shown up a couple of months earlier, renting the third chair from the door and bringing with him a following of regular customers; and Daniel Rodriguez, 37, a new barber from Florida who was still working on getting his New York license.
On one early rent roll, which the Trinity Church Archivist, Gwynedd Cannan, brought to my attention, there are several columns, listing names; lot numbers; the day the rent falls due; the amount owed; when it was paid; and, at the end, arrears.
Mrs. Terry, Synthia Terry Richards's great-great-grandmother, was an early renter in these parts, in ramshackle lean-tos that had been home to freed slaves who worked in Sag Harbor's whaling industry in the 1840's.
The CHA has begun to move on from consolidating the gains garnered from earlier years' rent reform efforts towards a new period of policy innovation with regard to public housing rent policy.
Unpredicted events may also throw a spanner in the works: "The earlier you rent, the more likely it is that your circumstances might change.
"Business drops right off right after Labor Day," Sam Densmore, who works at Corner Cycle in Falmouth, had told us when we stopped in earlier to rent bikes for our venture into cape cycling.
As we reported earlier, the rent on newly-let properties has fallen for the first time since late 2010, according to estate agents Countrywide.
It faces east, so get there early and rent a chair and umbrella from one of the dozen or so bars that line the beach.
She was in her late teens and early 20s, renting a loft in a condemned building on Eighth Street and hanging out at the Cedar Tavern, where artists drank, debated and caroused.
