The Spite Triangle is my kind of property. To be honest it seems like exactly the kind of thing I would do if faced with the same situation. "What situation is that", you may ask? This is the story of how one of the smallest pieces of private property in the world, came to be. In the beginning The city of New York didn't implement a master plan until 1811. Because of this much the first settled areas aren't laid out in the neat and tidy grid pattern that we think of now as being one of Manhattan's characteristic traits. This lead to much of lower Manhattan being a bit of a developmental mess. In the early 1900s there was an initiative to try and reorganize some of these areas. They decided that it was necessary to expand 7th avenue, and therefore an 11 block section of the West Village neighborhood would have to be condemned. The demolishing of these several hundred buildings was started in 1913 and completed in 1916. A survey from 1897, the building labeled Vor