Concord Chemist

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If Sephora and Duane Reade had a love child, it would look a lot like Concord Chemists. This midtown drugstore carries all the sundries one would expect from a drugstore—Band-Aids and Burt's Bees lip balm, Almay cosmetics and Advil—but that’s just the beginning. Adjacent to the pharmacy, health nuts will find an expansive wall lined with vitamins and nutritional supplements from Nature's Plus and Solgar, while Madison Avenue's power-suit elite can drop in for items like OPI nail polish, Tweezerman tweezers, and hosiery from Spanx and MeMoi. Playful accessories like Lug quilted bags and candy-colored makeup cases hang near the fully stocked cosmetics counter, which carries a plethora of colognes and perfumes including Chanel No. 5, Chrome, and Armani Code, plus a number of skin-care products from Syence, Stri-Vectin, and Lucrece. A nearby makeup station features Young Blood mineral makeup, while a small collection of fourteen-karat-gold necklaces and earrings finishes off the beautifying inventory. — Amy Wilkinson