129 Duane Street (New York City, New York)

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5-story Italianate residential building completed in 1861 as a store-and-loft building. It is a very long and narrow building, stretching through the block to Duane Street. The two facades are very different. The northern side facing Thomas Street is clad in red brick above a grey stone ground floor. The windows have stone sills and lintels, with black iron balconies fronting the two eastern windows on each floor. The ground floor here is occupied by the Ken Zen Institute dojo.

The south facade facing Duane Street is clad in white and pink marble above a ground floor of white fluted columns supporting a modillioned cornice, and with black metal infill with half-circle windows above the show windows and glass doorways. The 2nd-3rd and 4th-5th floors are grouped under 2-story round-arched supported on projecting piers with Corinthian capitals. Each 2-story section has a stone balustrade in the spandrel between floors. The facade is crowned by a modillioned and dentiled stone roof cornice with scrolled end brackets. The ground floor on this side is occupied by Antiqueria Tribeca.

In the late nineteenth century many of the tenants at No. 129 were wholesale dealers in boots and shoes. Twentieth-century tenants have included Foreign Hobbies, Inc., and the F.A. Baker Co., bicycle merchants. The upper floors were converted to condominiums in the 1980s.