Queens Midnight Pharmacy

104- 26 Roosevelt Ave

 Flushing, NY 11368

Queens Midnight Pharmacy is a pharmacy with a little market/shop below on Roosevelt Avenue. This little market/shop runs its business selling perfumes, gifts, accessories, etc while the pharmacy itself ran on selling medicine, etc.

• Customers: Local Residents around Corona, some customers come from other boroughs (Manhattan, Brooklyn) for perfumes

Throughout the 4 years working on the cashier job, a worker stated Roosevelt Avenue is not very  safe, although criminal activity has declined over the past years. Efforts have been made to take those “people” off the streets. What people? It may the drunk people walking along Roosevelt Avenue or the people integrated in “regular foot traffic” handing out cards of half-naked women, saying “chica-chica” (NY Times) . Especially with this Pharmacy being open late as well as the little market, it is important to ensure the safety of the workers.

• Improvements that can be made
  1. Have more police around Roosevelt Avenue
  2. Make the street cleaner, with more garbage containers
  3. Take the “people” off the streets

The city could help in making these improvements happen, but they mostly lie in the hands of the people living around Roosevelt Avenue to keep it clean and to keep it safe.

Are You Aware of the BID?

The workers were not aware of the Business Improvement District. However, as the worker was educated about the BID, they believed that the BID would significantly help, in which it would become more cleaner and probably more safer. The BID could improve business by increasing the number of customers due to the expected changes to be made, safety and environmentally wise.