A trip to the pharmacy is now a longer and sometimes more frustrating journey for some Brooklyn residents. The Rite Aid in Mill Basin has closed its pharmacy, sending customers scrambling to fill their prescriptions.

For 70-year-old Victor Sorrisio, the Mill Basin Rite Aid closing has turned a simple errand into a major ordeal.

"Now I have to take two buses to get over here,” explained Sorrisio. “Before I only had to take one. Now I have to take two buses and walk over here."

It took Sorrisio an extra 45 minutes to travel to the CVS on Ralph Avenue. That's where customers' prescriptions were transferred after the Mill Road pharmacy shut down Tuesday.

"Standing out in the sun over here waiting for the bus, that's the whole thing you're dealing with the weather,” said Sorrisio.

Jeff Heyman had no idea the Mill Basin Rite Aid pharmacy had closed when he showed up Wednesday.

"I've got a kid with asthma at home so came to get his prescription and I just found out the pharmacy's closed,” Heyman said. “I gotta find out where the prescription was sent, whether or not I can get it, what I gotta do."

He was able to get it at CVS, but some Rite Aid customers say they had difficulties getting their medications filled at some of the bigger chains - so locally owned pharmacies, like Basin Drugs, are picking up the slack. Pharmacists say over the past few months, they've had a huge influx of patients from Rite Aid.

"We order from a lot of places, so we have a lot of wholesalers that we order from as opposed to a big pharmacy that just uses one, so we have a better stock of medication and we're not overwhelmed,” explained Victoria Pepsh, pharmacist with Basin Drugs. “We're fully stocked and ready to help everybody."

The Rite Aid on Mill Avenue will close on July 29 with the rest of the Brooklyn locations to follow soon after.