New York’s Smallest Piece of Private Property is 500 Square Inches | Hess Triangle

🚨😱Watch out! Stepping on this little triangle in NYC's West Village is technically trespassing!
In front of Village Cigars (on the intersection of Christopher Street & 7th Avenue) is one of the city's most legendary holdouts. In 1910 when the avenue was being widened, the city claimed eniment domain of the Hess estate. However a city worker forgot a tiny little piece of land, which David Hess refused to sell to the city for decades.
It's still private property to this day! Here's the full story.
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[@dalmat73]

I really enjoy to learn history of nyc, amazing video, Thank you Ariel

[@christophe8322]

Encore une belle page sur l’histoire de New York. Merci à vous . Another page of history of New York . Thank you

[@HeribertoRemigio]

Interesting. Would you know if the Hess family paid real estate taxes on said property before it was sold?

[@MrAledro84]

Well, how would that be trespassing when basically your are walking into the store?

[@RodderFiles]

That was Fun

[@ToyFiend]

Turn it into a studio apt

[@99CentRapper]

How much is it worth?

[@firesurfer]

Essentially nothing.

[@cansmashR]

I wonder whats under that 'triangle'?

[@firesurfer]

David Hess's ego.

[@Cjnw]

Everybody who still has title to a square inch of the Yukon should get a square inch of the Hess Triangle.