Lou Gehrig Birthplace Site - New York City

Lou Gehrig's birthplace site is located on East 94th Street in New York City.  The famed New York Yankee first baseman was allegedly born in an upper east side tenement building which formerly stood on this spot, at what was then 242 East 94th Street.  His parents, Heinrich Gehrig, born Gehrich, and Anna Christina Fack, both German immigrants, were married in 1901 and moved here to the Yorkville area of New York.  Their first home was on 94th Street, and it was here that their first child, Anna Christina, who would die later in the year, was born in 1902.  At this point discrepancies emerge involving the location of the birth of their son.  According to Gehrig's biography the family moved to 1994 East 102nd Street shortly after Anna's birth, which would place them a few blocks north of this location on June 19, 1903, when Henry Louis Gehrig was born.  But according to the plaque erected here in 1990, outside the current building, it states this is the location of his birth.  The family was confirmd to have lived at this location, but exactly when they moved is up for debate.  The house on East 102nd Street seems to have more biographical data to support it as Gehrig's birthplace, while the 94th Street home was more than likely an earlier residence of Heinrich and Christina.  In 1906, the family, of which Lou was the only surviving child, moved even farther north, to a home at 2266 Amsterdam Avenue, in Washington Heights.     

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