New York-based life sciences developer Taconic Partners this week announced plans to build a 200K SF lab project on the 94^th Street site in Manhattan where baseball great Lou Gehrig was born.

In an homage to the Yankees first baseman and Hall of Famer, Taconic and its partners, Nuveen Real Estate and Flatiron Equities, said the facility will be named Iron Horse Labs—a reference to the nickname fans gave Gehrig when he set the original record for playing in consecutive games.

Gehrig's record of 2,130 consecutive games stood until 1995, when it was broken by Cal Ripken. Gehrig had to stop playing when he developed amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a rare ailment which became known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Before he died in 1941, Gehrig made an inspirational speech on July 4, 1939 at Yankee Stadium in which he referred to himself as "the luckiest man in the world."