2977 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.

1910
April 26
Plans call for ten attached houses, but only nine get built
Plans filed with the buildings department on April 26, 1910 showed ten fully attached houses on this stretch of Perry Avenue. Only five, Nos. 2979 to 2987, went up that way; this house and three others followed months later. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's report says it has not been determined why just nine houses were built in all.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1912
The only semi-attached house of the row gets a three-sided Ionic porch
Of the four houses built months after the attached row, No. 2977 is the one built semi-attached, while its three neighbors to the south stand free, separated by walkways about five feet wide. It shares the row's alternating orange and red brick, iron cornices, hipped-roof dormers and slate roof, and has a three-sided porch carried on slender Ionic columns.
“…nos. 2971 through 2977, were constructed in the months that followed as close, but free-standing, structures (no. 2977 is semi-attached)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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