Even Duane Reade wants to be a bar in the East Village

Everyone is getting in on the act! Ha, OK...so Duane Reade outlets have sold beer for awhile now...



However, the DR brass has decided to advertise now, like here at Avenue B and Second Street...

Black Friday update: Live from the front lines

The Duane Reade on 14th Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue was free of pesky shoppers...



Ample supplies of JLo and Halle Berry scents still available...

Tough choices at Duane Reade

Hmmm.... The 5th Avenue Preferred is so tempting...

"Duane Reade has been a sin"

Outside Duane Reade on Second Street and Avenue B.

All the Fulton Street Duane Reade news that's fit to post

The Big new Duane Reade opens at the former Staples site on Water Street and Fulton on Saturday...



...which means the old Duane Reade a few hundred feet away on Fulton is closing...



Meanwhile, someone artfully arranged these bricks on Water Street outside the new Duane Reade.

93rd Duane Reade in Lower Manhattan nearly complete

We're almost ready for more Duane Reade action ... at the former Staples store on Fulton and Water Streets in the Financial District.

Woman smiles, runs into traffic proudly carrying her Duane Reade bag

Oh, it's just an ad! And the signs confirm that Duane Reade is taking over the former Staples store on Fulton and Water Streets in the Financial District.



Perhaps the Duane Reade 100 feet way will have some good sales then...Better, I hope, than the crap that Rite Aid tried to pawn off...

What else do you think would take over a large retail space downtown?

As we mentioned last year, the big Staples store that anchored the corner of Water Street and Fulton Street at the gateway to the South Street Seaport closed up in November.

Meanwhile, there has been plenty of activity at the site....Prepping it for — c'mon, you can guess correctly!






...a big Duane Reade, this according to a construction worker ...
Huge need for this! There isn't a Duane Reade within 100 feet of this location!



OK, OK....the other Duane Reade there on Fulton is simply moving...

Previously on EV Grieve:
That joke isn't funny anymore: Duane Reade opens at location of former OTB parlor on John Street

Buy a Hannah Montana hollow egg this Easter

At Duane Reade on Avenue B.

That joke isn't funny anymore: Duane Reade opens at location of former OTB parlor on John Street

Last May, I wrote about my favorite OTB parlor at 17 John St. in the Financial District getting closed by the state...



... THE NIGHT BEFORE THE KENTUCKY DERBY, only the biggest racing day of the year.



Shall I even bother mentioning what just opened in that old OTB spot?



Seriously! There are now SIX Duane Reade stores within a three-or-so-block radius. (Not to mention a CVS.) And how about that new Duane Reade logo?

Gifts that weren't given or received this Dec. 25

At Duane Reade. Maybe next year Tom!

A warm holiday greeting from EV Grieve

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and a joyful holiday season to all!



Damn, anyway. I meant to do a better job of tracking the first signs of the December holidays. I forgot! This was at a Duane Reade yesterday. I'm sure stores have had holiday doodads up for much longer. Anyway, for me, it doesn't seem like the holidays until the trees go up at PC Richard & Son on 14th Street. Should be any day now!

Anyway, c'mon, let's get into the holiday spirit! Everyone! Even you traders!

Decision 2008

Who will I go as this Halloween? And where the hell are the Sarah Palin masks? I asked a nice woman working at Duane Reade. She said "Who?" When I said she is the Republican vice presidential candidate, the worker threw up and her hands and said "all the masks that we have are out."

Duane Reade wants to make you feel like dancing

Just give me my Beano Food Enzyme Dietary Supplement Tablets and let me get out of here.

I had this dream in which I woke up and every corner in the city was now a condo, bank and Duane Reade

Then I woke up for real and.....AHHHHHHHHHH!