Some Archival news on the Hess triangle. 

Once upon a time a famous NY family gave the city 100 acres from their farm near 14th street part of which became Stuyvesant Square the only park split by an avenue. Generosity has it's perks!

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/16/nyregion/fyi-134995.html

http://thevillager.com/villager_432/tilesunderfoot.html

On Sep 3, 2014, at 8:54 AM, Chris Whong <[address removed]> wrote:

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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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