Rite Aid Closing Its Last Inwood Location: What To Know

INWOOD, NY — It is the end of an era for Rite Aid stores in Inwood as the last location in the neighborhood will close at the end of the month.

The Rite Aid at 4910 Broadway, near West 207th Street, will close on Jan. 31, an employee confirmed to Patch.

The employee said that workers were notified for the first time on Monday about the impending closure, and that management gave a "variety" of reasons for the shuttering. The employee hung up, though, before a follow up question could be asked.

The Inwood location had a pharmacy, meaning that uptowners who use it will have to transfer their prescriptions to somewhere nearby. Those options include Inwood Pharmacy at 4915 Broadway and Town Drug Inc. at 4785 Broadway.

Rite Aids closing is not a new phenomenen.

A Washington Heights location shuttered last year at the corner of West 186th Street and Saint Nicholas Avenue after more than a decade of business at the site.

The chain shuttered nearly 150 stores in 2022 that weren't considered profitable.

The Inwood location closure comes a day after Patch reported that a Rite Aid on the Upper West Side was also shutting up shop at the end of January.

In September, a Rite Aid executive complained about shoplifting in New York City following a weaker than expected quarterly earnings report.

The issue of shoplifting in New York City drugstores, specifically at Rite Aids, was thrust into the limelight in January when comedian Michael Rapaport's video — which he said was of an Upper East Side location was closing due to thefts — went viral.

The New York Post did a follow-up story about the Rite Aid at the corner of 50th Street and Eighth Avenue in Hell's Kitchen closing because of the increase in thefts.

Sources told The Post at the time that shoplifters took more than $200,000 in merchandise in just two months at the location.

Rite Aid is the United State's fourth-largest drugstore chain.