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I wanted to share a blog post about a fun little NYC Urban Planning story.  A few weeks ago, Noel shared an interesting post on the FB group about a tiny triangle of land that was the result of extending 7th Avenue through the Village in the early 1900s.  Its owners left a little message to the world about how the city took ALMOST all of their land 100 years ago.

In this blog post, I summon PLUTO data as well as NYPL online historic maps to answer some questions about the origins of this little triangle.

This story has it all: government takings, urban planning, historic and GIS mapping, etc.  I thought some on this list might find it interesting.  

Also, I am in search of the transfer records for this triangle, both from when it was first chopped up around 1915, or from when it was consolidated with its neighbor in the 1930s.  I assume I need to be physically present in the basement of some building to find these.  Has anyone researched historic real estate transaction records in NYC?

-Chris Whong

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