CVS to Close Downtown Binghamton Pharmacy Sooner than Anticipated

Operations at the CVS Pharmacy on Court Street in Binghamton will cease earlier than expected.

Signs posted at the downtown store now inform customers that the place will be closing on November 12.

A sign posted at the CVS Pharmacy store on Court Street on October 18, 2021. (Photo: Bob Joseph/WNBF News)

Employees previously had told WNBF News that the target date for shutting things down was November 29, although one worker had said the closing could occur sooner.

There has been a drug store at the 34 Court Street site for nearly a century. Hamlin's Red Cross Drug Store opened there in 1924. It became a CVS operation in 1975.

CVS owns the property where the store is located. People familiar with the site say the Rhode Island-based company is trying to sell it for $2 million.

CVS representatives have not responded to a request to comment on the store closing.

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