The going-out-of-business sale continues at Biomed Drugs & Surgical Supply Co. at 50 Third Ave. near East 10th Street…
Not sure of the reason behind the closure… (and we're not even sure if we've ever been inside the drug store…)
The listing for the space doesn't appear online just yet at the EVO Group website.
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Between 14th and 8th there's at least a half dozen duane reede wlgreen and cvs corporates that killed this independent.
It's an odd place and its closing signals the change of this neighborhood from older people needing medical supplies to NYU students and (soon) tech bros.
Maybe it will be a bank branch? Or a frozen yoghurt store? Or perhaps a coffee place where people can study all day? (so customers can't ever sit) Or maybe a bar where the bouncers checking ID have very poor eyesight (like the Village Pourhouse)?
Can't wait to see how my (soon to be ex) neighborhood is improved by a new tenant in the space.
I bought some hospital gowns there for a costume once.
It was there 18 years. Never went inside until today.
I've been in there a few times. It's a neighborhood pharmacy. Was. Not super close to my place, but sometimes I've been on 3rd and needed aspirin or bandages. Shame. This past 2 years, it has seemed like the change-over to something sterile and dull has accelerated logarithmically.
That's a shame because they actual have some good cheap medical supplies that you can't get at a Duane Reade or CVS. Their lower level was filled with orthopedic and prosthetic needs. The only other place I know of with that sort of stuff is Bigelow.
Certainly seems that these " surgical supply" stores are a dying breed all over. Hard to say it is the Internet that is causing it as the most typical user of much of this stuff considers a telephone as advanced technology forget about the computer.
Maybe I am the only one, but I have kind of scary memories being a small kid looking in the windows of these shops, all the mysterious and not very appealing body corsets and support devices and lord-only-knows what most of that stuff was for.
And now that I am getting within sighting distance of possibly needing all this horrifying apparatus, well there they go.
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