When Sir Paul McCartney walked into Zitomer one day a few years ago, his jaw dropped. Sharon Sternheim, the longtime owner of the upscale drug store on the Upper East Side, remembers him saying, “Please don’t tell me you’re going out of business.”
At the time, the store was under construction—its first renovation in almost 40 years—and everything was moved from the first floor up to the second. “To him and most of the neighborhood, it really is a staple,” Sternheim explains. Many of the salespeople have worked there for decades and greet regulars, some of whom have house accounts, by name. But everyone knows Sir Paul.
