They’re taking “I Love NY” to the next level.
Carmen Verdugo, owner of Liberty Center Tattoo Shop, designed a book for her clients filled with hundreds of NYC tattoos.such as T-shirts and hats, and opting for edgier keepsakes — inking themselves with tattoos of the cities they’ve visited.
Verdugo, 40, designed a book for her clients filled with hundreds of NYC tattoos, from a pigeon and a hot dog wrapped around a skyscraper, to theBarron Trump heard in clip of dad asking UFC's Dana White, 'Can we make him into a fighter?' makes supporters freak out “I chose the butterfly because it is the symbol of rebirth, coming to New York for me was a bit like a rebirth. I returned to the land of my great-grandmother that I finally found after 30 years of searching,” she said.“All kinds of countries: Canada, Poland, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Iceland . . . the Netherlands, Switzerland. Yesterday, we did two people from Africa,” she said.
After the pandemic, she got her tattoo license, and joined the staff at Times Square Tattoo, where she worked for four years until it closed in June of last year.“I used to work on West 46th Street, and I always saw an empty space. And in my mind it was like, ‘One day this place could be mine,'” she remembered.
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