{"id":433,"date":"2015-12-18T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2015\/12\/18\/hess-triangle-how-eminent-domain-battle-created-nycs-smallest-piece-of-property-hint-check-your-property-surveys-before-you-condemn\/"},"modified":"2015-12-18T18:32:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T18:32:00","slug":"hess-triangle-how-eminent-domain-battle-created-nycs-smallest-piece-of-property-hint-check-your-property-surveys-before-you-condemn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/hess-triangle-how-eminent-domain-battle-created-nycs-smallest-piece-of-property-hint-check-your-property-surveys-before-you-condemn\/","title":{"rendered":"Hess Triangle. How Eminent Domain Battle Created NYC&#39;s Smallest Piece of Property. Hint: Check Your Property Surveys Before you Condemn."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What&#8217;s Hess Triangle?<\/strong>\u00a0A triangular piece of property that is 25.5 inches by 27.5 inches by 27.5 inches.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>What? How can this two foot triangle exist as private property in NYC?<\/strong>\u00a0Go to\u00a0corner of Seventh Avenue and Christopher Street and you&#8217;ll see it<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did this small piece of property emerge from an eminent domain fight?<\/strong>\u00a0In 1910, NYC was extending the\u00a0Seventh Avenue Subway Line. A property owner named Hess owned a 5 story building in the path of the new subway extension.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did the landowner do in 1910 to fight eminent domain?<\/strong>\u00a0He went to court. Fought a 4 year legal battle. But, the city won its right to use eminent domain on a\u00a0<em>bad property survey.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The 2 foot triangle was left out of the survey and remained Hess&#8217;s private property.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0The city asked the family to donate the triangle&#8230;<\/strong>\u00a0The family refused.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2015\/04\/09\/hess_triangle_history.php\">The Gothamist |\u00a0The Story Behind Hess Triangle, Once The Littlest Piece Of Land In NYC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What&#8217;s Hess Triangle?<\/strong>\u00a0A triangular piece of property that is 25.5 inches by 27.5 inches by 27.5 inches.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>What? How can this two foot triangle exist as private property in NYC?<\/strong>\u00a0Go to\u00a0corner of Seventh Avenue and Christopher Street and you&#8217;ll see it<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did this small piece of property emerge from an eminent domain fight?<\/strong>\u00a0In 1910, NYC was extending the\u00a0Seventh Avenue Subway Line. A property owner named Hess owned a 5 story building in the path of the new subway extension.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did the&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-trend","category-private-property-rights","category-process-procedure","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}