Tag: duane reade

One of the arguments used to fight a proposal to change zoning rules on the Upper West Side in an effort to keep storefronts small (and possibly help mom-and-pop shops) was that Upper West Side stores were simply selling items for too much, and Duane Reade was successful because it ...

They don't make pharmacies like Goodrich Pharmacy anymore. And that's a shame because Goodrich is going away. The pharmacy on 70th Street just West of Columbus Avenue is closing for good at the end of the month, and transferring its prescriptions to Duane Reade. Goodrich has been around for 40 ...

We reported a few months back that Duane Reade had created quite a display in the beer aisle at its store on 76th Street and Columbus. Hanging right in front of the six packs was a plastic rack filled with condoms and ping pong balls (above). There could be an ...

We spend a lot of time on this website picking on Duane Reade, because the chain has seemingly opened a new homogeneous store on every block in the neighborhood. Okay, not just seemingly -- they have in fact opened a new store on every block in many parts of the ...

February 2, 2012 Weather: Cloudy, High of 46 Degrees.

Duane Reade, in an all-out push to make drug stores more friendly to the young and naïve, is now encouraging people to play beer pong and then -- as Will Smith might say, get jiggy with it.

July 22, 2011 Weather: Sunny, High of 99 Degrees. Notices: Kevin Jacobs, a history teacher at the Beacon School is looking for Upper West Siders who lived here when San Juan Hill existed (the neighborhood that was torn down and replaced by Lincoln Center). Jacobs' students want to interview the ...

This month, we have plenty of openings and closings to report, but first, a moment of silence for H&H Bagels... Okay, now that that's over with, let's talk new wine bars, shirt shops, food markets, luggage stores, and doggie and human pampering businesses. As for closings: tea, pizza and makeup ...

By Harriet Flehinger In a conversation last week with a construction worker, I learned that another large Duane Reade (the escalator is already in place for the second level) will open by August in the high-end building, The Laureate at 2150 Broadway (at 76th Street). That will mean a Duane ...

June 3, 2011 Weather: Sunny, High of 77 Degrees. Notices: The JCC is holding a donor registration drive for Ayelet Galena, a little girl from the Upper West Side with a rare life-threatening disease who needs a bone marrow transplant. It's at 334 Amsterdam Avenue from 10 a.m. to 6 ...