This land is now part of the sidewalk and it was never sold or given to the city. Save this story for later. Case in point: Hess's Triangle, the smallest piece of private property in New York City. The Hess Spite Triangle, The Smallest Piece of New York City Real Estate. It's not too much bigger than the city's largest slice of pizza. A few years ago, Michael Graves, a broker with Douglas Elliman, had a young client who’d made a fortune selling his tech company and decided to invest in north Brooklyn real estate.He took a stack of pennies and threw them on a map, and wherever a coin landed, he bought. “He has made so much money,” Graves says, “because those neighborhoods only go one direction.
The Smallest Plot of Land In New York City. For just over 95 years, NYC’s smallest plot of real estate has sat on the corner of Christopher Street and Seventh Avenue South.
Resisting municipal pressure, the Hess family went to court to avow their property rights, and won the case. One of my favorite bits of unusual New York City history is located on the sidewalk in front of West Village’s iconic Village Cigars store. The Hess Spite Triangle, The Smallest Piece of New York City Real Estate Photo: New Yorker We have written about the eminent domain battle behind the West Village's Hess Triangle before, but this cartoon from the New Yorker is a great summary of what went down back in 1922. Posted by: Scout November 1, 2010 16 Comments. The surveyors missed a tiny piece of the plot at 110 7 th Avenue– at the corner of Seventh Avenue South and Christopher Street, where owner David Hess’ five-story Voorhis apartment building stood until the demolition. The city asked the Hess family to donate it, but they refused. Between Christopher Street and Seventh Avenue South, just in front of the historic Village Cigars store, there’s a small mosaic triangle set into the sidewalk and it's the smallest legal plot owned in New York City. Hess Triangle is NYC’s smallest piece of private land Posted On Mon, July 17, 2017 By Dana Schulz In Greenwich Village , History VIEW PHOTO IN GALLERY It’s pretty well known, but I’m going to re-tell it because it’s such a great story.
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