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Rye Essentials - The GiaQuinto Family.

Driving to the train station this morning I saw a woman with a hose and sprayer patiently watering the luxuriant stretch of flowers planted along the Rye Beach Pharmacy parking lot on Forest Avenue. Many local business owners would landscape this kind of area with a batch of basic low maintenance evergreens. Not Rye’s GiaQuinto’s. No way.

Rye Beach Pharmacy has been a regular part of my family’s life since I can remember. I’ve frequented the old store on Forest Ave, the new store on Forest Ave, and the new-new store at The Medical Center on Theall Road. My father, as a prescribing physician, always trusted them with his patient’s health. In later years, when he himself was a patient, my mother (an RN) and I trusted Rye Beach, counted on them, to assure his medicines were correct and not counteracting each other or generally doing more harm than good.

I could tell you more stories about this important and essential Rye family – but I’ll skip them. So many here have so many similar good stories it would be superfluous. But The Journal News landed a feature story on the family this week and it’s a good one. Rye is a really lucky town to have The GiaQuinto Family watching out for us when it counts.

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Generations of families have shopped at Rye's Rye Beach Pharmacy

“During the early 1940s, Brooklynites Daniel and Marie GiaQuinto and their two kids, Bob and Dennis, spent their summers in a rented room near Playland and the Long Island Sound. One day, Daniel, a pharmacist, popped into the local pharmacy to make a phone call. He was asked to fill a prescription because the regular pharmacist had briefly stepped out.

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The owners then suggested that Daniel and Marie, a clothes designer, buy the store. The duo said yes and relocated to Rye in July of 1946. Thus began the GiaQuinto dynasty at the Rye Beach Pharmacy.”

Read the rest of this excellent Journal News profile here –

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