Why the Smallest Piece of Land in NYC Exists
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I can't think of something that would be more annoying that having your house demolished to make way for a new road. Other than accidentally uploading a video to the wrong TH-cam channel.
Omfg lmao had me in the first half
Just put balloons on your house and have it fly away
twice
in a day
Or... Having your home planet demolished in order to facilitate an intergalactic highway construction project for a hyperspace express route.
OR loosing your luggage in Newark International airport
A survey error meant that when my dad sold property once, the county kept billing him for an amount less than the cost of a stamp for a tiny sliver of land, for YEARS. Like they lost money sending out the billing notice.
9 out of 10 dentists agree that you can't have buildings on roads. The 10th dentist has has heard of the Gate Tower Building. It's a 16 story building in Japan that has a road running directly through it.
the 10th dentist has also heard of the historic london bridge which was like 90% buildings with roads running through them
Ah, but you see Joe, that is incorrect. The building is not ON the road, the road is in the building.
However the railroad can run through the middle of the house according to a popular song of the 60's or maybe it was the late 50's, it runs together in my mind.
There was also a building with a trunk road going through in Hong Kong, sadly it was recently demolished
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_structures_built_on_top_of_freeways
For those confused with them comments: This video was uploaded to Wendover Productions first, leading many of us confused with a notification followed by unavailable private video
Thanks for the info
@@ireplytoeverything3122 and Thanks for the reply 😂
It’s what I do
He uploaded it there by accident. Idk why but this feels oddly wholesome.
apparently it just happened again
This video was accidentally brought to you by Wendover Productions
Hes clearly stealing Wendovers content! I CANT BELIEVE THIS!
th-cam.com/video/KfZ45Z9P_Wc/w-d-xo.html
He made it private.
Edit: Half As Interesting uploaded a Wendover Productions Vid but he also made it private.
I noticed that too lol
@@saulg00dman_ yea dont watch this guy he literally uploaded the same video
Heroes were here first, but legends watched this on Wendover.
I'm happy I wasn't the only one to start watching it over there.
He took it down but we are the legend xD
True
That’s what I was gonna say lol, even though I didn’t make it to the Wendover one in time. I did get the notification though.
I got the notif but it was private
That moment when this video was uploaded by Wendover Productions first
sup justin
hi justin, ur really early lol
justin and Hai? weird
Was just about to say
Watch him upload a Wendover video on here lol
Anyone remember when this was on Wendover Productions?
He's just the nerd from wendover productions,great engineering and polly matter
I did
Thought he could just sneak that by us...tsk tsk
ahhh so this wasn't déjà vu, it just wasn't him
now he accidentally uploaded the new wendover video on hai lol
In Perth, Australia there's a similar story. Except, the house that was supposed to be run over was a politician's mums, and she really cared about her rose garden. So, to this day, 100 years later, there is a distinct curve in the main road of the city that ruins the traffic flow.
Reminds me a bit of the story of how the BART train line through Oakland, California has an unusually tight turn in it because the mayor at the time of its construction had a friend who owned a hardware store that would've been along the path of the original plan for the line. Ever since, thousands of Bay Area denizens have to deal with their train slamming on the brakes to go around this corner, in an already congested part of the network and causing all sorts of slowdown and generally bad times.
The hardware store closed less than a year after the line opened anyway.
Short answer: Because of the well-ordering principle; if there are any pieces of land and no two pieces of land are _exactly_ the same size, there has to be a smallest piece.
That's not the whole story. You also implied that the set of pieces of land is finite (which it however is in this case). The set of all integers is well-ordered, yet no "smallest integer" exists. (Or maybe that's the well-ordering theorem, people including me seem to mix those two up)
@@OrangeShellGaming I think the well-ordering principle usually talks about natural numbers; something like "every nonempty set of natural numbers has a minimum". But you're right of course, we need to ensure that there cannot be an infinite sequence of pieces of land that are strictly monotonously falling in size.
@@AlienValkyrie I like ducks:)
@@QuackersMcCrackers das crazy, any specific ducks?
@@Lysergic_ Call ducks are nice, because they're soft and squishy and they're like white pieces of loaf c:
This man is gonna have so many stories to tell when he's a grandfather...
The real question is- will he even marry to have a child in order to have a grandchild?
@@pulkitmohta8964 can you mary a aircraft?
@@sirBrouwer I think Sam would, given his love for planes
And if he gets Alzheimer's, his grandchildren will still find his stories on TH-cam...
And if TH-cam removes his videos out of spite, they'll still find them on Nebula...
@@kabochaVA What if they're taken out of Nebula too?
When the Smallest Piece of Land in NYC is so interesting that it was uploaded by Wendover Productions, but then quickly taken down and uploaded by Half as Interesting.
If only it had been titled the "Logistics of the Smallest Lot in NYC"
It was 3/4 as Interesting
Quite possibly the only place I could afford to live in Manhattan. With roommates. And rent control. Plus some "tax reorganization" Also would need a raise at work.
Maybe the city of Portland, Oregon should consider a similar arrangement for Mill Ends Park. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill_Ends_Park
Rent control alone could do it.... a woman died about 4 years ago. She had a cold water flat in Greenwich Village not far from here. Her rent? $28
@@fionam3554 what?!
@@nikolnolastname4473 showing the odd rent laws. She had been in there... 50 years or so? and her rent was locked in
@@fionam3554 28 still seems real low. I know someone thats been living in the same place for close to 30 years and the rent is low but $28 sounds insane.
HAI:**shows "The Dimmsdale Dimmadome"**
Also HAI:**pronounces it as "Dimmadrone"**
not right
Ever found it strange how most of these general knowledge channels have the same voice actor and upload around the same time? Not to mention that this was also previously uploaded on Wendover Productions an hour ago?
Wendover productions and Hai are run by the same person he doesn’t run any other channels that anyone knows about
Wendover and HAI are run and narrated by the same person. He just has two channels that have similar content types but cover different topics.
@@peterbellek1791 dude it’s a joke
Half as Interesting steals videos from Wendover Productions. Unsubbed. Smh
It's the illuminati & the NWO for sure
- Government removes a man's private property against his will
"Spiteful pettiness"
It's more of a Sale, Dale the Pale Male. It's a fun Tale, but to build the Trail they must be fair in their compensation, paying for every plank of Shale and iron Nail (better that than have it blow away in a Gale). While you might call it a Fail in terms of freedom, they don't just bulldoze it and Bail. If they did, they'd get sent to Jail. It might make him want to Wail, but to Impale his house makes it faster for them to Unveil a road to make it easier to Hail a cab. I'm going to stop now, as this is rather Stale.
@@RyanTosh Bravo, you deserve an Ale
@@dalethepalemale6855 I'd prefer Quail and a side of Kale
Zoinks! 🤣
He was minding his own business then had his land taken, I wouldn’t call him petty.
At 2:00 you said “The dimmsdale DimmaDROME” but on the screen it says The Dimmsdale Dimmadome”
1:58
@@talkalexis 1 minute 58 seconds 300 miliseconds*
I prefer the Dimmsdale Dimmadromedary. That camel can hang 🐪
That's going on the error video.
See. I told you guys. Half as Interesting is the worst youtuber ever!! I can't believe people compare him to my favourite, beautiful Wendover Productions.
You guys are making me Wendover backwards for these videos
lol
Best one yet.
You win the internet today.
Please stop, we've gone far enough.
This is a great Wendo--Half As Interesting video.
"starting with the Dutch settlement of Nieuw Amsterdam-"
*G E K O L O N I S E E R D*
Avery -_-
*G E N O R M A L I S E E R D*
Why
The
Hell
This video is brought to you by the overly-logistical people at Wendover Productions!
The logistics of uploading a video to the correct channel
Disappointed the mosaic didn't read *"Hey!... I'm walking here"* in true NYC fashion
2:10
"9 out of 10 dentists agree you can't have buildings on roads."
Dentists prefer canals anyways. ROOT canals that is!
Route canals?
I'll be the 10th dentist then who knows of chinese nail houses.
hhaahahhaahha
4:04 You said a man who followed the and lost in court to keep his own property was "A sign of New York pettiness." That's a bit of an unfair characterization, since the city took the property and failed to use the total property properly. Your critical of the bureaucratic laziness. Hess is a testament to pointing out the overreach of eminent domain and the waste of resources that city government can be guilty of causing.
That moment when you work hard on a new video but all everyone is talking about is that you uploaded it to the wrong channel :P
"...Because 9/10 dentists agree you can't have houses on roads..." XD
The 10th dentist has an RV.
The Chinese disagree
You actually laughed at that joke?
The 10th dentist has heard of the Gates Tower Building in Japan.
I love this refusal to give in to a city that used emminent domain to take someone's property.
I walk by this all the time and once decided to look at the inscription and look it up. It is a very interesting hidden piece of history and showcases a great deal of integrity by David Hess not to loss his land for subway construction
Depending on the zoning regulations {if its for food/restaurants}
You can technically set up a hotdog stand there.
and nobody could ban it
@Albert D A small cart then?
"Why the smallest piece of land in NYC exists"
Plate tectonics, I assume.
A thumbs up for 'The Dimmsday Dimmadome" at 1:57
I bet a similar sized plot of _"land"_ in Manhattan would sell today for about $50,000. And the realtor would tell you how it has "great potential". *XD*
When ur waiting for it come on nebula but the first ad that appears is nebula
How I love that the narrator doesn't sound like his reading form a script.
I love how he sounds nothing like the guy from wendover productions
Even though he is
@@jaarya7 ReAlLy No I nEvEr KnEw
1:06 this joke is incredibly complicated
the Hess triangle: *exists*
David Hess: It's NOT free real estate!
The lead-in to Nebula was maybe the best segway in history.
I see what you did there Sam! Using a decimal format for square feet and a fractional format for square meters! 2:58
This man lived the plot to the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
love how all the general knowlege ytbers all upload within a few hours of each other
wendover uploaded a similarly titled video a few minutes ago too
@@KingBossBob I know right, what a coincidence!
@@KingBossBob he uploaded this video to wendover by mistake
Yea I was watching the Chile one and then this one popped up in my recommended
Half as Interesting and RLL upload on the same day... this is heaven
Actually, HAI's jokes are a handful of wet spaghetti, not the grid.
Seriously, Sam if you're reading this, please cool it with the cringey jokes. I'd much rather watch a video that's two minutes shorter but 100% less embarrassing.
(Sorry for the shade.)
@@honorarymancunian7433 It's not even embarassing, they're meant to be sarcasms and word plays but he does it sooo much that it's like hitting a dead horse. Not special, not fun anymore. Almost schizophrenic even.
When you forget what channel it was twice in a day.
I was just looking for this comment
So are we getting the other video that got set to private today or not?
This channel has the best writers ever.
Question: would owning a piece of property in NY allow for some weird law/tax shenanigans? has anybody tried anything in this regard?
It actually works against you... most business try not to be in new York.
@@malachaicarter4338 Alot of businesses are incorporated elsewhere and just have offices in NY. It's like commuting, but for taxes.
“Yo. Make this farmland.”
I love stuff of this ilk. I want to purchase that triangle, plant a flagpole and erect a tiny embassy (maybe an old, refurbished public phone booth with a small stool), issue currency and passports/citizenship, and name it "New Western Bir Tawil", after the chunk of desert neither Egypt nor Sudan want, nor can anyone pay up, show up, and claim as a micronation because tons of international reasons.
Either that, or dub it "Minerva Extra Dry", after the filled-in reef in the Pacific that was briefly a libertari-tax dodge by a guy from Las Vegas and some cronies, until word got round to Tonga, who set out with a crack expeditionary force in a Polynesian sailboat to remove the flagpole and warning flasher. (I love this tale, and you might even be able to find a Minervan $35 gold coin for sale online...)
Why is your latest video private?
Because it’s New York.
Much love, your friends at Rev Media!!
0:30 small hands. Omg that's a good one.
Man, this guy seems like the kind of person who wouldn't loan you one of his seven pencils in class on test day, just because.
His property was taken against his will, hard to imagine why he might be upset.
I first read "Property of the Hesse state" and got excited...
Now I'm
disappointed that we don't own a tiny part of NY :(
Videos like these just make you go "hmm that's cool"
Technically it wasn't sold to Yeshiva University. When the property owner died, it (along with lots of other property) was left to YU in her will. They had no use for it so they sold it.
So, you uploaded to Wendover, and then took it down and uploaded it here. Nice job Sam
They only care about money
@@HeenaPatel253 I’m confused why this is a problem, they’re both free to access TH-cam channels.
@Albert D and he took it down immediately
That's funny, I've been looking at a slightly larger, but similar piece of land to purchase. The state is selling off little chunks they don't need by roads. There's a lot that is about 500 square feet available for a little over $1000, right next to a major highway. Might be useful for advertising purposes...
2:17 Glad to see the subtitles spell “thicc” correctly.
I love it when these videos come out at the same time as my break between classes.
2:49
*Vsauce music intensifies
I think it was probably called voorhouse. Meaning front house which is a kind of storage wherehouse in the Netherlands which is quite common
Love how he called LaGuardia Airport a dumpster fire, but doesn’t realize that Newark is nearby.
0:22 - wow!
Tfw you upload the video on the wrong channel and quickly make it private and hope people don't notice
You have no proof
Tfw does not apply here
@halfasintristing I have screenshoots
I am a witness!
@@halfasinteresting I have a screenshot of TH-cam notifications 😙
Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!
last time I was this early, this video was on Wendover Productions
I was there when Sam uploaded this to the wrong channel
*insert unoriginal comment about the video being on Wendover first here*
I love how you quickly corrected your mistake.
This video is sponsored by Wendover Productions
1:12 I swear on my life that’s Gabe from the office in number 3
NY: *I’m walkin’ oveh he’e!*
Hess: *No, I’m walkin’ oveh he’e!*
NY: *No, I’m walkin’ he’e!*
Hess: *No, I’m walkin’ he’e!*
NY: *No, I’m walkin’ oveh he’e!*
The rest is history.
2:22 i died 🤣🤣🤣
7 mins late and I already missed the new 5 mins funnier than usual wendover production video
The subtle jokes are so low-key, yet I find myself subtly laughing throughout!
How I wish I owned that piece of priceless Triangle in the middle of New York City.
I remember combing through those pink city surveys/ maps back in college for some of my projects. Good/bad times.
“Big dumpster fire”
surprised they didn’t show a picture of MetLife stadium
Or staten island
You're both clearly new here
They should’ve built a structure on the property and then used the structure to sell advertising spots on all three sides.
HAI: "You can't have buildings on roads."
You just gave everyone who makes cursed images an idea.
Yes, they extended 7th Ave. Why? Because they could, New Yorkers do whatever New Yorkers want
ya tho more like the ny government does whatever it wants and is beholden to NO ONE
I wonder how many times that triangle's been peed on.
1:56 It might have been called "Voorhuis" which is Dutch for 'the front half of the house'.
Oh crap, I posted this on the wrong channel!
Now Hai uploaded a Wendover video, but it was taken down in seconds
Hey man that Wendover Productions guy tried to steal this video man he took it down but I think you should keep an eye on that bro
Guy has his property in New York City stolen except for less than 4 square feet and writes a cynical sign about it
Half as interesting: “spiteful pettiness”
"Wait, I've seen this one"
What do you mean you’ve seen this one, it’s brand new!
It’s an old classic
I am struggling over who does the best video voice-overs... you or the Webflow guy. Either way... great job!
Fun fact: The Hess triangle is an isosceles triangle.
I love the increasing bitterness and passive agression
“A big mayor”
-Half as Interesting 2020
No the subway below 7th avenue is called the (1) (2) (3) because they run together. The 1 being local, and the 2 & 3 being express
0:27 that ain't no bodega, bodega means cellar/winery
Disclaimer:
The copyrights to this video originally belonged to Wendover, is sold to Half as interesting.
Wendover is gng to buy more Planes with that money.
Thank you
why does this part sound like RealLifeLore 0:02
Same guy
For Real Life Lore fans, the triangle is 2% the size of a Toyota Corolla
Only OG fans know this was first uploaded on Wendover Productions
Well, I'm an OG fan then!
ya!
Is it me, or did this just go up on Wendover for about 2 seconds?