NY Mag | C.O. Bigelow Owner Ian Ginsberg’s Favorite Drugstore Items
It won’t take much time in Greenwich Village apothecary C.O. Bigelow to realize that it isn’t any old drugstore — if the boxes of obscure, effervescent European vitamins don’t tip you off, the racks of Mason Pearson hairbrushes will. Founded in 1838, and said to be one of the oldest apothecaries in America, C.O. Bigelow is a place where you can pick up standards like Cetaphil and Dove bars as easily as you can licorice-mint Marvis toothpaste and a candy-store array of barrettes (Marc Jacobs is a fan — he recently captioned an Instagram post of himself in sparkling black-and-silver hair clips, “Got distracted at the barrette counter at Bigelow’s Pharmacy yesterday”).