2973 Perry Avenue

Bedford Park | built 1912

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1912
German-born real estate agent John Eggers moves in from Mott Haven
An early owner of this house, completed in 1912, was John Eggers, a real estate agent who had come to New York from Germany in 1873 at about age 15. His wife Maria, also German-born, arrived in 1885 at about 17. The family came to Perry Avenue from East 140th Street in Mott Haven, the older Bronx neighborhood to the south.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1915
Early owners give up much of the front yard for a garage
In 1915 the house's early owners gave up much of the small front yard to a new garage, a change copied in 1922 at No. 2983 down the row. Both garages were still standing when the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Perry Avenue Historic District in 2009.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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