129 Duane Street

also 54 Thomas Street | Tribeca | built 1861

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1861
Dry goods merchant Felix Astoin builds a five-story store at 129 Duane Street that runs through to Thomas Street
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Felix Astoin, a dry goods merchant and importer, put up this building in 1860-61 on a lot running the full depth of the block to Thomas Street. It replaced a brick saddlery on the Duane Street side and a small brick house on Thomas Street, where a barber and an oyster dealer had lived in the early 1850s. Its double-height arcaded facade is nearly identical to the one at 131-135 Duane Street, built a year later for the merchant Thomas Hope.
“…replaced a brick saddlery on Duane Street which extended most of the way through the block, and a small brick dwelling on Thomas Street…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1920
The Gelo Slipper and Footwear Co. owns and occupies part of 129 Duane Street for decades
Many late-nineteenth-century tenants dealt wholesale in boots and shoes, including James Huggins & Bro., W.A. Ranson & Co. and the E.N.Y. Boot & Shoe Leather Manufacturing Company. The Gelo Slipper and Footwear Co. owned and used parts of the building from the 1920s through the 1950s. Other twentieth-century occupants included Foreign Hobbies, Inc. and the bicycle merchants F.A. Baker Co.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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