176 Duane Street (New York City, New York)

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7-story Neo-Grec residential building completed in 1868. Designed by John B. Snook as a 5-story store-and-loft building, it originally housed a butter and egg company. It is the easternmost of a row of four nearly-identical Snook-designed buildings. Above a grey-green cast-iron base, it is clad in red brick with white stone quoins lining each edge of the facade. The windows are segmental-arched brick headers featuring stone keystones and springers. The windows also have stone sill courses and corbelled feet. A narrow metal fire escape runs down the center of the facade. The iron cornice originally topping the 5th floor has been replaced by a patterned brick parapet. The ground floor its original loading platform, and a suspended iron awning framework was added in 1924.

By 1891 the building housed a baking powder concern and a coffee and spice grinding factory. The building was occupied by the Zenith-Godley Co., a butter and eggs wholesaler from the 1930s to the 1990s. The upper floors were converted to residential, with two new recessed penthouse floors, and the ground floor is occupied by Roberta Roller Rabbit boutique.
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Coordinates:   40°43'1"N   74°0'35"W

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  • 178 is featured in a cameo shot in director Chantal Ackerman's 1977 film "News from Home".
  • Typo. 176 and 178 feature in this 1977 film.
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