Take-out: Yes Accepts Credit Cards: Yes Accepts Apple Pay: Yes Bike Parking: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range Moderate
5 reviews
Audrea Stmartin
Big n easy. Thats how I like my drug stores… Ooh mmmmm yeah. Good sales, super great and helpful pharmacist, yes Heather Bickel you are awesome! And they have this line of organic skincare that I absolutely love and cant live wif outtie. Lastly, their frozen foods are worth trying and they have good toilet paper sales. Ya I went there. So now you know!!
This review isnt so much for the Duane Reade itself as to more of the experience I had last year. Now for the store, it's always good to have all night convenience., It's what happens at 2.30am that makes it extraordinary. Having to get some things for the travel bag after a long night of eating and drinking we drop in here.
As I get to the counter and pay, one of the attendants walks up to me with the night security guard in tow:
Attendant 1: "Do you like the Knicks?" Me: "Sometimes" Attendant 1: "Do you like Jeremey Lin? Do you have Linsanity?" Me: "Im from California. That dude didn't do jack shit for the Warriors" Attendant 2: "Who do you like then?" Me: "You have to go back. Im talking George Gervin, David Robinson" Attendant 1: "You talkin bout the ICEMAN!?" Security Guard: "and the ADMIRAL?!" Attendant 2: "Oh maaan! You my N*GG*R!"
Uhhh. Now I've never had anyone call me the N word before, especially not from a black man that I had not met until two minutes prior. However, I take it as a HUGE compliment. I think the three of them figured I didn't know much about basketball in which I then ended up controlling the conversation for about half an hour before my friend got tired. We talked overrated players, All Team Punk Ass, and many other scenarios were drawn up about the NBA. How thing were before money become the only thing players were interested in. Even the infamous scenario about Allen Iverson's rant came up. This totally made my night in an unexpected way. You step into a boring Duane Reade one minute and come out utterly entertained the next. ———————————————————————————————- "Its easy to talk about, its easy to sum it up when you just talk about practice. We sittin' in here, I'm supposed to be the franchise player, and we in here talkin' about practice. I mean listen, we talkin bout practice. Not a game, not a game, not a game. We talkin bout practice. Not a game, not a, not a, not the game that I go out there and die for, and play every game like its my last. Not the game. We talkin' bout practice, man. I mean how silly is that? We talkin' bout practice. I know I'm supposed to be there, I know I'm supposed to lead by example. I know that, and I'm not shovin' it aside, you know, like it don't mean anything. I know its important, I do. I honestly do. But we talkin' bout practice, man. What are we talkin' bout? Practice? We talkin' bout practice man. We talk… We talkin' bout practice. We talkin' bout practice. We ain't talkin' bout the game, we talkin' bout practice, man. When you come into the arena, and you see me play, you see me play, don't you? You see me give everything I got, right? But we talkin' bout practice right now. We talkin' bout practice. (crowd laughs) Man look, I hear you, its funny to me too. I mean, its strange, its strange to me too. But we talkin' bout practice man. We not even talkin' bout the game, the actual game, when it matters. We talkin' bout practice."
24/7 and yet always clean Knowledgable and friendly pharmacy staff Large (2 floors) Convenient location (6 Spring, N/R Prince, B/D/F/M Bway-Lafayette) Chase ATM (to be fair, all DR's have this feature)
My personal goal is to visit every Duane Reade in NYC. Others may want to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro or swim the English Channel, but I think this is a more worthy goal.
Anywho, I was not a fan of this one. I love the old bank building but the store was grungy and not well stocked at all. They had zero bottles of plain seltzer in the drink cooler. I saw all the slots where it should be, because the signs were there, teasing me with their promise of "Canada Dry Seltzer" or even the store-brand "De-lish Seltzer" but I was stuck getting Cherry Pomegranate Seltzer. Can you imagine my outrage?
I know, my burden is pretty heavy. I made do, but I don't think I'll put this DR on my regular rotation. Luckily I don't go downtown that much. It's kind of a scary place.
Big n easy. Thats how I like my drug stores… Ooh mmmmm yeah. Good sales, super great and helpful pharmacist, yes Heather Bickel you are awesome! And they have this line of organic skincare that I absolutely love and cant live wif outtie. Lastly, their frozen foods are worth trying and they have good toilet paper sales. Ya I went there. So now you know!!
This review isnt so much for the Duane Reade itself as to more of the experience I had last year. Now for the store, it's always good to have all night convenience., It's what happens at 2.30am that makes it extraordinary. Having to get some things for the travel bag after a long night of eating and drinking we drop in here.
As I get to the counter and pay, one of the attendants walks up to me with the night security guard in tow:
Attendant 1: "Do you like the Knicks?"
Me: "Sometimes"
Attendant 1: "Do you like Jeremey Lin? Do you have Linsanity?"
Me: "Im from California. That dude didn't do jack shit for the Warriors"
Attendant 2: "Who do you like then?"
Me: "You have to go back. Im talking George Gervin, David Robinson"
Attendant 1: "You talkin bout the ICEMAN!?"
Security Guard: "and the ADMIRAL?!"
Attendant 2: "Oh maaan! You my N*GG*R!"
Uhhh. Now I've never had anyone call me the N word before, especially not from a black man that I had not met until two minutes prior. However, I take it as a HUGE compliment. I think the three of them figured I didn't know much about basketball in which I then ended up controlling the conversation for about half an hour before my friend got tired. We talked overrated players, All Team Punk Ass, and many other scenarios were drawn up about the NBA. How thing were before money become the only thing players were interested in. Even the infamous scenario about Allen Iverson's rant came up. This totally made my night in an unexpected way. You step into a boring Duane Reade one minute and come out utterly entertained the next.
———————————————————————————————-
"Its easy to talk about, its easy to sum it up when you just talk about practice. We sittin' in here, I'm supposed to be the franchise player, and we in here talkin' about practice. I mean listen, we talkin bout practice. Not a game, not a game, not a game. We talkin bout practice. Not a game, not a, not a, not the game that I go out there and die for, and play every game like its my last. Not the game. We talkin' bout practice, man. I mean how silly is that? We talkin' bout practice. I know I'm supposed to be there, I know I'm supposed to lead by example. I know that, and I'm not shovin' it aside, you know, like it don't mean anything. I know its important, I do. I honestly do. But we talkin' bout practice, man. What are we talkin' bout? Practice? We talkin' bout practice man. We talk… We talkin' bout practice. We talkin' bout practice. We ain't talkin' bout the game, we talkin' bout practice, man. When you come into the arena, and you see me play, you see me play, don't you? You see me give everything I got, right? But we talkin' bout practice right now. We talkin' bout practice. (crowd laughs) Man look, I hear you, its funny to me too. I mean, its strange, its strange to me too. But we talkin' bout practice man. We not even talkin' bout the game, the actual game, when it matters. We talkin' bout practice."
-Allen Iverson
Love it here.
24/7 and yet always clean
Knowledgable and friendly pharmacy staff
Large (2 floors)
Convenient location (6 Spring, N/R Prince, B/D/F/M Bway-Lafayette)
Chase ATM (to be fair, all DR's have this feature)
My personal goal is to visit every Duane Reade in NYC. Others may want to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro or swim the English Channel, but I think this is a more worthy goal.
Anywho, I was not a fan of this one. I love the old bank building but the store was grungy and not well stocked at all. They had zero bottles of plain seltzer in the drink cooler. I saw all the slots where it should be, because the signs were there, teasing me with their promise of "Canada Dry Seltzer" or even the store-brand "De-lish Seltzer" but I was stuck getting Cherry Pomegranate Seltzer. Can you imagine my outrage?
I know, my burden is pretty heavy. I made do, but I don't think I'll put this DR on my regular rotation. Luckily I don't go downtown that much. It's kind of a scary place.
But you knew this already. Customer service? Psh, pleaseeeee you are lucky to be served!