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 FORM 4                                                WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549                                   OMB APPROVAL
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/ / CHECK THIS BOX IF NO                    STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP                OMB NUMBER:       3235-0287
    LONGER SUBJECT TO                                                                                   EXPIRES:  DECEMBER 31, 2001
    SECTION 16.  FORM 4 OR    Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,   ESTIMATED AVERAGE BURDEN
    FORM 5 OBLIGATIONS MAY       Section 17(a) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 or     HOURS PER RESPONSE .... 0.5
    CONTINUE.  SEE                       Section 30(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940           -----------------------------
    INSTRUCTION 1(b).
(Print or Type Responses)
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person*     2. Issuer Name AND Ticker or Trading Symbol     6. Relationship of Reporting Person(s)
                                                                                                 to Issuer (Check all applicable)
Credit Suisse First Boston, on behalf of the    Duane Reade Inc. (DRD)                              Director         X   10% Owner
Credit Suisse First Boston business unit                                                       ----                 ----
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    (Last)        (First)        (Middle)    3. IRS or Social Security  4. Statement for       ----          title  ---- (specify
                                                Number of Reporting        Month/Year                        below)       below
                                                Person (Voluntary)                            -----------------  ------------------
11 Madison Avenue
--------------------------------------------                            --------------------- 7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing
                  (Street)                                              5. If Amendment,          (Check Applicable Line)
                                                                           Date of Original   _X_Form filed by One Reporting Person
                                                                           (Month/Year)       ___Form filed by More than One
   New York,       NY               10010                                                        Reporting Person
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    (City)       (State)            (Zip)        TABLE I - NON-DERIVATIVE SECURITIES ACQUIRED, DISPOSED OF, OR BENEFICIALLY OWNED
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1. Title of Security               2. Trans-   3. Trans-     4. Securities Acquired (A)    5. Amount of     6. Owner-   7. Nature
   (Instr. 3)                         action      action        or Disposed of (D)            Securities       ship        of In-
                                      Date        Code          (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)           Beneficially     Form:       direct
                                                  (Instr. 8)                                  Owned at         Direct      Bene-
                                     (Month/                                                  End of           (D) or      ficial
                                      Day/     -------------------------------------------    Month            Indirect    Owner-
                                      Year)                               (A) or                               (I)         ship
                                                Code    V       Amount    (D)     Price       (Instr. 3        (Instr. 4) (Instr. 4)
                                                                                              and 4)
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Common Stock, par value $.01 per share  6/13/01   S             2,355,921  D      $32.84      2,867,271           I      (1)(12)(15)
                                                                                                                           (17)(18)
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Common Stock, par value $.01 per share  6/13/01   S                93,824  D      $32.84        114,188           I      (2)(12)(15)
                                                                                                                           (17)(18)
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Common Stock, par value $.01 per share  6/13/01   S               115,852  D      $32.84        140,997           I      (2)(12)(15)
                                                                                                                           (17)(18)
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Common Stock, par value $.01 per share  6/13/01   S               137,738  D      $32.84        167,633           I      (2)(12)(15)
                                                                                                                           (17)(18)
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Common Stock, par value $.01 per share  6/13/01   S                51,151  D      $32.84         62,254           I      (2)(12)(15)
                                                                                                                           (17)(18)
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Common Stock, par value $.01 per share 6/13/01    S               418,281  D      $32.84        509,070           I      (6)(15)(17)
                                                                                                                             (18)
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Common Stock, par value $.01 per share 6/13/01    S                38,093  D      $32.84         46,360           I      (7)(12)(15)
                                                                                                                           (17)(18)
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Common Stock, par value $.01 per share 6/13/01    S                 7,429  D      $32.84          9,042           I      (8)(12)(15)
                                                                                                                           (17)(18)
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Common Stock, par value $.01 per share 6/13/01    S                10,578  D      $32.84         12,874           I      (9)(12)(14)
                                                                                                                        (15)(17)(18)
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Common Stock, par value $.01 per share 6/13/01    S               448,800  D      $32.84        546,211           I     (10)(14)(17)
                                                                                                                            (18)
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Common Stock, par value $.01 per share 6/13/01    S                62,333  D      $32.84         75,863           I     (11)(16)(17)
                                                                                                                            (18)
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Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially owned directly or indirectly.                   (Over)
* If the form is filed by more than one reporting person, SEE Instruction 4(b)(v).                                   SEC 1474 (3-99)

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FORM 4 (CONTINUED)          TABLE II - DERIVATIVE SECURITIES ACQUIRED, DISPOSED OF, OR BENEFICIALLY OWNED
                                   (E.G., PUTS, CALLS, WARRANTS, OPTIONS, CONVERTIBLE SECURITIES)

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1. Title of Derivative Security     2. Conver-   3. Trans-   4. Transac-   5. Number of Deriv-      6. Date Exer-
   (Instr. 3)                          sion or      action      tion Code     ative Securities Ac-     cisable and Ex-
                                       Exercise     Date        (Instr. 8)    quired (A) or Dis-       piration Date
                                       Price of    (Month/                    posed of (D)             (Month/Day/
                                       Deriv-       Day/                      (Instr. 3, 4, and 5)     Year)
                                       ative        Year)
                                       Security

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                                                                                                     Date      Expira-
                                                             --------------------------------------  Exer-     tion
                                                                                                     cisable   Date
                                                              Code    V        (A)        (D)

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7. Title and Amount of Under-       8. Price   9. Number     10. Owner-     11. Nature
   lying Securities                    of         of Deriv-      ship           of In-
   (Instr. 3 and 4)                    Deriv-     ative          Form           direct
                                       ative      Securi-        of De-         Bene-
                                       Secur-     ties           rivative       ficial
                                       ity        Bene-          Secu-          Own-
                                       (Instr.    ficially       rity:          ership
                                       5)         Owned          Direct         (Instr. 4)
                                                  at End         (D) or
                     Amount or                    of             Indi-
       Title         Number of                    Month          rect (I)
                     Shares                       (Instr. 4)     (Instr. 4)

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Explanation of Responses:
SEE ATTACHMENT A FOR ADDITIONAL FOOTNOTES.



                                                                                 Credit Suisse First Boson, acting solely
                                                                                 on behalf of the Credit Suisse First
                                                                                 Boston business unit

                                                                                 /s/ Ivy B. Dodes                    July 10, 2001
                                                                                 ---------------------------------   -------------
                                                                                 By: Ivy B. Dodes                    Date
**Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute                      **Signature of Reporting Person
  Federal Criminal Violations.  SEE 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a).

Note: File three copies of this Form, one of which must be manually signed.
      If space is insufficient, SEE Instruction 6 for procedure.

Potential persons who are to respond to the collection of information contained
in this form are not required to respond unless the form displays a currently
valid OMB Number.



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                                                                    Attachment A

                            Explanation of Responses

(1)      These securities are held directly by DLJ Merchant Banking Partners II,
         L.P. ("Partners II"), which is a partnership.

(2)      These securities are held directly by DLJ Merchant Banking Partners
         II-A, L.P. ("Partners II-A"), which is a partnership.

(3)      These securities are held directly by DLJ Offshore Partners II, C.V.
         ("Offshore Partners II"), which is a partnership.

(4)      These securities are held directly by DLJ Diversified Partners, L.P.
         ("Diversified"), which is a partnership.

(5)      These securities are held directly by DLJ Diversified Partners-A, L.P.
         ("Diversified-A"), which is a partnership.

(6)      These securities are held directly by DLJMB Funding II, Inc. ("Funding
         II"), which is a Delaware corporation.

(7)      These securities are held directly by DLJ Millennium Partners, L.P.
         ("Millennium"), which is a partnership.

(8)      These securities are held directly by DLJ Millennium Partners-A, L.P.
         ("Millennium-A"), which is a partnership.

(9)      These securities are held directly by DLJ EAB Partners, L.P. ("EAB"),
         which is a partnership.

(10)     These securities are held by DLJ First ESC, L.P. ("ESC"), which is a
         partnership.

(11)     These securities are held directly by UK Investment Plan 1997 Partners
         ("1997 Partners").

(12)     DLJ Merchant Banking II, Inc. ("MB II Inc.") is the Managing General
         Partner of each of Partners II, Partners II-A, Millennium and
         Millennium-A and Advisory General Partner of Offshore Partners II. In
         addition, DLJ Merchant Banking II, LLC ("MB II LLC") is the Associate
         General Partner of each of Partners II, Partners II-A, Offshore
         Partners II, Millennium, Millennium-A, and EAB. MB II Inc. is also the
         Managing Member of MB II LLC.

(13)     DLJ Diversified Partners, Inc. ("Diversified Partners") is the General
         Partner of each of Diversified and Diversified-A. DLJ Diversified
         Associates, L.P. ("Diversified Associates") is the Associate General
         Partner of each of Diversified and Diversified-A. Diversified Partners
         is also the General Partner of Diversified Associates.

(14)     DLJ LBO Plans Management Corporation is the Managing General Partner of
         EAB and ESC.

(15)     DLJ Capital Investors, Inc. ("DLJCI") is the sole stockholder of each
         of MB II Inc., Diversified Partners and Funding II.


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(16)     These securities are held indirectly by UK Investment Plan 1997, Inc.
         ("Plan 1997"), General Partner of 1997 Partners.

(17)     Credit Suisse First Boston (USA) Inc. ("CSFB-USA"), a Delaware
         corporation formerly named Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Inc., is the
         sole stockholder of DLJCI, DLJ LBO Plans Management Corporation and
         Plan 1997.

(18)     This Form 4 is being filed by Credit Suisse First Boston (the "Bank"),
         a Swiss bank, on behalf of itself and its subsidiaries, to the extent
         that they constitute part of the Credit Suisse First Boston business
         unit (the "CSFB business unit" or the "Reporting Person"). The CSFB
         business unit is engaged in the corporate and investment banking,
         trading (equity, fixed income and foreign exchange), private equity
         investment and derivatives businesses on a worldwide basis. The Bank
         and its subsidiaries engage in other separately managed activities,
         most of which constitute the independently operated Credit Suisse Asset
         Management business unit. The Credit Suisse Asset Management business
         unit provides asset management and investment advisory services to
         institutional investors worldwide.

         Credit Suisse First Boston, Inc. ("CSFBI"), a Delaware corporation,
         owns 100% of the voting stock of CSFB-USA. The Bank owns a majority of
         the voting stock, and all of the non-voting stock, of CSFBI. The
         ultimate parent company of the Bank and CSFBI, and the direct owner of
         the remainder of the voting stock of CSFBI, is Credit Suisse Group, a
         corporation formed under the laws of Switzerland ("CSG").

         The principal business of CSG is acting as a holding company for a
         global financial services group with five distinct specialized business
         units that are independently operated. In addition to the two business
         units referred to above, CSG and its consolidated subsidiaries (other
         than the Bank and its subsidiaries) are comprised of (a) the Credit
         Suisse Private Bank business unit that engages in the global private
         banking business; (b) one Credit Suisse business unit that engages in
         the Swiss domestic banking business and (c) the Winterthur business
         unit that engages in the global insurance business. CSG's business
         address is Paradeplatz 8, Postfach 1, CH-8070, Zurich, Switzerland.

         CSG, for purposes of federal securities laws, may be deemed ultimately
         to control the Bank, and the CSFB business unit. CSG, its executive
         officers and directors, and its direct and indirect subsidiaries
         (including all of the business units except the CSFB business unit),
         may beneficially own securities issued by the Issuer or derivative
         securities relating thereto, and any such securities are not reported
         in this statement. Due to the separate management and independent
         operation of its business units, CSG disclaims beneficial ownership of
         any such securities beneficially owned by its direct and indirect
         subsidiaries, including the Reporting Person. The Reporting Person
         disclaims beneficial ownership of any such securities beneficially
         owned by CSG and any of CSG's and the Bank's other business units.

         The Reporting Person disclaims beneficial ownership of securities held
         directly by any entity described herein except with respect to the
         Reporting Person's proportionate interest in or ownership of such
         entity. The filing of this statement shall not be construed for
         purposes of Section 14 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
         amended, as an admission of beneficial ownership of the securities
         reported on this statement.


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