Custom tattoos with serious years of experience.
Walk-ins welcomed.
A local favorite since 1976, Fineline is the oldest continually operating shop in NYC! Winner of Village Voice's BEST OF NYC.
A local favorite since 1976, Fineline has been the go-to shop for those in the know on the Lower East Side. Winner of the Village Voice's Best of NYC.
Started around 1976 by TATTOOIST MIKE BAKATY, FINELINE TATTOO N.Y.C operated 'underground' out of MIKE'S loft space at 295 BOWERY. In 1997 a 35 year ban on TATTOOING in the 5 borroughs of NEW YORK CITY was finally lifted, and TATTOOING could finally be practiced in the open once again. Given this turn of events MIKE, along with his son MEHAI who had joined him in the trade some years earlier,...