Deep Inside New York’s Worst-Rated Russian Bath House

For damp, sweltering, pitch-black rooms where gigantic, stern men slap you round the face with birch leaves as you struggle for breath, banyas—or Russian bath houses—are surprisingly popular places to visit. Yet in New York City lurks a banya with awful online reviews and an owner with a fiery temper: “Outright rude or aggressive” “The […] The post Deep Inside New York’s Worst-Rated Russian Bath House appeared first on VICE.

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