Why the Smallest Piece of Land in NYC Exists

[@gmet12915]

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 KZbin channel.

[@peterbellek1791]

Omfg lmao had me in the first half

[@ireplytoeverything3122]

Just put balloons on your house and have it fly away

[@oriserban3590]

twice in a day

[@1.4142]

Or... Having your home planet demolished in order to facilitate an intergalactic highway construction project for a hyperspace express route.

[@jur4x]

OR loosing your luggage in Newark International airport

[@interestedyt]

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

[@ireplytoeverything3122]

Thanks for the info

[@interestedyt]

@@ireplytoeverything3122 and Thanks for the reply 😂

[@ireplytoeverything3122]

It’s what I do

[@insightfultoaster2965]

He uploaded it there by accident. Idk why but this feels oddly wholesome.

[@nuclearfox210]

apparently it just happened again

[@joecary3586]

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.

[@catherinecat6182]

the 10th dentist has also heard of the historic london bridge which was like 90% buildings with roads running through them

[@1oldskoolluvr]

Ah, but you see Joe, that is incorrect. The building is not ON the road, the road is in the building.

[@mhudzinski1]

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.

[@FrozenBusChannel]

There was also a building with a trunk road going through in Hong Kong, sadly it was recently demolished

[@GhostSamaritan]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_structures_built_on_top_of_freeways

[@jenroses]

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.

[@pepe20129]

This video was accidentally brought to you by Wendover Productions

[@benjaminphelps561]

Hes clearly stealing Wendovers content! I CANT BELIEVE THIS!

[@Twebs12]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gZe9ZWiQbrWSjcU

[@shirlintan2791]

He made it private. Edit: Half As Interesting uploaded a Wendover Productions Vid but he also made it private.

[@LevelCLC]

I noticed that too lol

[@SKAOG21]

@@saulg00dman_ yea dont watch this guy he literally uploaded the same video

[@wilyriley_]

Anyone remember when this was on Wendover Productions?

[@justsomepersononyoutube9271]

He's just the nerd from wendover productions,great engineering and polly matter

[@singh_z_king7350]

I did

[@JohnD201]

Thought he could just sneak that by us...tsk tsk

[@ArniSPeturs]

ahhh so this wasn't déjà vu, it just wasn't him

[@gangstascout3593]

now he accidentally uploaded the new wendover video on hai lol

[@greentoadboy]

Heroes were here first, but legends watched this on Wendover.

[@Nighthawk1000]

I'm happy I wasn't the only one to start watching it over there.

[@valenAJP]

He took it down but we are the legend xD

[@flareon9371]

True

[@ftwtech]

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.

[@GrasshopperWithoutGrass]

I got the notif but it was private

[@JustinY.]

That moment when this video was uploaded by Wendover Productions first

[@helpinee]

sup justin

[@aspacenerdfromflorida1134]

hi justin, ur really early lol

[@jankomann8728]

justin and Hai? weird

[@smol_yote]

Was just about to say

[@MaximNightFury]

Watch him upload a Wendover video on here lol

[@mikaxms]

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.

[@rvoight92]

If only it had been titled the "Logistics of the Smallest Lot in NYC"

[@Mr.HowardEatsPants]

It was 3/4 as Interesting

[@AlienValkyrie]

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.

[@OrangeShellGaming]

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)

[@AlienValkyrie]

@@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.

[@QuackersMcCrackers]

@@AlienValkyrie I like ducks:)

[@Lysergic_]

@@QuackersMcCrackers das crazy, any specific ducks?

[@QuackersMcCrackers]

@@Lysergic_ Call ducks are nice, because they're soft and squishy and they're like white pieces of loaf c:

[@kwowka]

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.

[@willd1790]

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.

[@joeym5243]

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.

[@andyjay729]

Maybe the city of Portland, Oregon should consider a similar arrangement for Mill Ends Park. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill_Ends_Park

[@fionam3554]

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

[@nikolnolastname4473]

@@fionam3554 what?!

[@fionam3554]

@@nikolnolastname4473 showing the odd rent laws. She had been in there... 50 years or so? and her rent was locked in

[@nikolnolastname4473]

@@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.

[@FlyingMozzarella]

HAI:**shows "The Dimmsdale Dimmadome"** Also HAI:**pronounces it as "Dimmadrone"**

[@colelepper9381]

not right

[@theknownsurvivor]

This man is gonna have so many stories to tell when he's a grandfather...

[@pulkitmohta8964]

The real question is- will he even marry to have a child in order to have a grandchild?

[@sirBrouwer]

@@pulkitmohta8964 can you mary a aircraft?

[@pulkitmohta8964]

@@sirBrouwer I think Sam would, given his love for planes

[@kabochaVA]

And if he gets Alzheimer's, his grandchildren will still find his stories on KZbin... And if KZbin removes his videos out of spite, they'll still find them on Nebula...

[@pulkitmohta8964]

@@kabochaVA What if they're taken out of Nebula too?

[@frederickanderson6746]

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?

[@peterbellek1791]

Wendover productions and Hai are run by the same person he doesn’t run any other channels that anyone knows about

[@Ren_1090]

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.

[@MarkAlcarezBoston]

@@peterbellek1791 dude it’s a joke

[@insightfultoaster2965]

Half as Interesting steals videos from Wendover Productions. Unsubbed. Smh

[@eustache_dauger]

It's the illuminati & the NWO for sure

[@mkptrsn]

He was minding his own business then had his land taken, I wouldn’t call him petty.

[@1brianm7]

This is a great Wendo--Half As Interesting video.

[@AshLilburne]

You guys are making me Wendover backwards for these videos

[@844SteamFan]

lol

[@leonhill8447]

Best one yet.

[@Very_Angry_Citizen]

You win the internet today.

[@RyanTosh]

Please stop, we've gone far enough.

[@1zero8dragon]

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.

[@TheBlackRangerPL]

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

[@noahk258]

This video is brought to you by the overly-logistical people at Wendover Productions!

[@Thomas0918273645]

The logistics of uploading a video to the correct channel

[@dustin6804]

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

[@economicsinaction]

Disappointed the mosaic didn't read *"Hey!... I'm walking here"* in true NYC fashion

[@Flint_Inferno]

2:10 "9 out of 10 dentists agree you can't have buildings on roads." Dentists prefer canals anyways. ROOT canals that is!

[@OntarioTrafficMan]

Route canals?

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

I'll be the 10th dentist then who knows of chinese nail houses.

[@maknyc1539]

hhaahahhaahha

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

"starting with the Dutch settlement of Nieuw Amsterdam-" *G E K O L O N I S E E R D*

[@rieldebonk1044]

Avery -_-

[@wandaperi]

*G E N O R M A L I S E E R D*

[@aircoolguy5218]

Why

[@aircoolguy5218]

The

[@aircoolguy5218]

Hell

[@dalethepalemale6855]

- Government removes a man's private property against his will "Spiteful pettiness"

[@RyanTosh]

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.

[@dalethepalemale6855]

@@RyanTosh Bravo, you deserve an Ale

[@RyanTosh]

@@dalethepalemale6855 I'd prefer Quail and a side of Kale

[@RSAgility]

Zoinks! 🤣

[@runandsnipe]

At 2:00 you said “The dimmsdale DimmaDROME” but on the screen it says The Dimmsdale Dimmadome”

[@talkalexis]

1:58

[@Sinberg]

@@talkalexis 1 minute 58 seconds 300 miliseconds*

[@SraTacoMal]

I prefer the Dimmsdale Dimmadromedary. That camel can hang 🐪

[@ethanhayes7038]

That's going on the error video.

[@insightfultoaster2965]

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.

[@Sriram-fd8fx]

Half as Interesting and RLL upload on the same day... this is heaven

[@LoganMeyers03]

"...Because 9/10 dentists agree you can't have houses on roads..." XD

[@SuperBobKing]

The 10th dentist has an RV.

[@froglover4203]

The Chinese disagree

[@StewartLucrative]

You actually laughed at that joke?

[@joecary3586]

The 10th dentist has heard of the Gates Tower Building in Japan.

[@randomnessrules4971]

"Why the smallest piece of land in NYC exists" Plate tectonics, I assume.

[@davebeach2343]

I love this refusal to give in to a city that used emminent domain to take someone's property.

[@jomiar309]

The lead-in to Nebula was maybe the best segway in history.

[@chris_cookies]

I see what you did there Sam! Using a decimal format for square feet and a fractional format for square meters! 2:58

[@zacksargent]

This man lived the plot to the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy

[@godsofgravity1171]

When ur waiting for it come on nebula but the first ad that appears is nebula

[@sigmoidbread430]

love how all the general knowlege ytbers all upload within a few hours of each other

[@KingBossBob]

wendover uploaded a similarly titled video a few minutes ago too

[@Bryzerse]

@@KingBossBob I know right, what a coincidence!

[@amboss5072]

@@KingBossBob he uploaded this video to wendover by mistake

[@sigmoidbread430]

Yea I was watching the Chile one and then this one popped up in my recommended

[@TheAtb85]

Question: would owning a piece of property in NY allow for some weird law/tax shenanigans? has anybody tried anything in this regard?

[@jamesshaw3500]

It actually works against you... most business try not to be in new York.

[@BalderOdinson]

@Malachai Carter Alot of businesses are incorporated elsewhere and just have offices in NY. It's like commuting, but for taxes.

[@williamhalsted4]

3:29 My favorite HAI joke ever.

[@Jason-se2xd]

Videos like these just make you go "hmm that's cool"

[@angryadrien]

This channel has the best writers ever.

[@andybrinegar8861]

“Yo. Make this farmland.”

[@superdestrier9160]

I love it when these videos come out at the same time as my break between classes.

[@SuperPlayz]

When you forget what channel it was twice in a day.

[@nuclearfox210]

I was just looking for this comment

[@riliryrimaddyvia9630]

How I love that the narrator doesn't sound like his reading form a script.

[@Homer-OJ-Simpson]

I love how he sounds nothing like the guy from wendover productions

[@jaarya7]

Even though he is

[@mansoorahmed1256]

@@jaarya7 ReAlLy No I nEvEr KnEw

[@HAA0603]

Love how he called LaGuardia Airport a dumpster fire, but doesn’t realize that Newark is nearby.

[@treelife365]

The subtle jokes are so low-key, yet I find myself subtly laughing throughout!

[@darknessblades]

Depending on the zoning regulations {if its for food/restaurants} You can technically set up a hotdog stand there. and nobody could ban it

[@darknessblades]

@Albert D A small cart then?

[@DJdoppIer]

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*

[@debated8358]

So are we getting the other video that got set to private today or not?

[@cedricye1767]

*Uploads a HAI vid on Wendover *Uploads a Wendover video on HAI

[@Tim.Stotelmeyer]

A thumbs up for 'The Dimmsday Dimmadome" at 1:57

[@rogersledz6793]

Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!

[@_AvaGlass]

2:17 Glad to see the subtitles spell “thicc” correctly.

[@MarsCBG]

the real reason HAI videos have their logo in the thumbnail is so that they don't get uploaded to the wrong chanel

[@NightDocs]

I was there when Sam uploaded this to the wrong channel

[@revmedia8108]

Because it’s New York. Much love, your friends at Rev Media!!

[@asaxthegamer5655]

So, you uploaded to Wendover, and then took it down and uploaded it here. Nice job Sam

[@HeenaPatel253]

They only care about money

[@Sauce_E9]

@@HeenaPatel253 I’m confused why this is a problem, they’re both free to access KZbin channels.

[@Sauce_E9]

@Albert D and he took it down immediately

[@jamessummers5946]

last time I was this early, this video was on Wendover Productions

[@seanwilkinson8696]

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...)

[@vtron9832]

I love how you quickly corrected your mistake.

[@kennywang1707]

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.

[@cramer4506]

His property was taken against his will, hard to imagine why he might be upset.

[@Basssiiie]

1:56 It might have been called "Voorhuis" which is Dutch for 'the front half of the house'.

[@hannesgroesslinger]

the Hess triangle: *exists* David Hess: It's NOT free real estate!

[@cowboymooman8776]

1:06 this joke is incredibly complicated

[@sirswagger21]

Actually, HAI's jokes are a handful of wet spaghetti, not the grid.

[@honorarymancunian7433]

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.)

[@ulaq]

@@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.

[@zakiducky]

I remember combing through those pink city surveys/ maps back in college for some of my projects. Good/bad times.

[@CPL02Victor]

7 mins late and I already missed the new 5 mins funnier than usual wendover production video

[@roscoechance5155]

Do this series in a wendover voiceover style and you’ve got a winner

[@jdu7729]

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 :(

[@NeoZondix]

0:30 small hands. Omg that's a good one.

[@calpmaar9520]

This video is sponsored by Wendover Productions

[@ChakatNightspark]

Problem with Nebula. If you want to make it a Streaming Service. It would be Free like youtube is. Have ad space in front of videos or let Content creators Put Ads into their videos. That is the problem. Why spend like 15 a year or more a year. when KZbin is Free.

[@jamesvick59]

*insert unoriginal comment about the video being on Wendover first here*

[@Ryan-xi4tm]

1:12 I swear on my life that’s Gabe from the office in number 3

[@LinksSpaceProgram]

Tfw you upload the video on the wrong channel and quickly make it private and hope people don't notice

[@halfasinteresting]

You have no proof

[@lasse1122354]

Tfw does not apply here

[@blackdeathghostye6654]

@halfasintristing I have screenshoots

[@eustache_dauger]

I am a witness!

[@aftabnabi128]

@@halfasinteresting I have a screenshot of KZbin notifications 😙

[@AbsolXGuardian]

3:45 "Rabbi, someone is selling a few square inches of land for $100" "Well we better exercise our right to own land, and buy it for kicks"

[@leslieferrao269]

How I wish I owned that piece of priceless Triangle in the middle of New York City.

[@Zaid1780]

Now Hai uploaded a Wendover video, but it was taken down in seconds

[@AK_.]

"Wait, I've seen this one"

[@The360MlgNoscoper]

What do you mean you’ve seen this one, it’s brand new!

[@mansoorahmed1256]

It’s an old classic

[@2020davidg]

I am struggling over who does the best video voice-overs... you or the Webflow guy. Either way... great job!

[@maskedduelist1380]

I wonder how many times that triangle's been peed on.

[@flavoursofsound]

Hess: Wait, it’s all 7th Avenue? NYC: Always Hess Been

[@caleb.z]

HAI: "You can't have buildings on roads." You just gave everyone who makes cursed images an idea.

[@karlaguerrero8398]

Yeah it's sad that all those homes were destroyed but it wasn't the first time something like that happened in New York. Has anyone heard of Seneca village?

[@LonelyRacoon]

Only OG fans know this was first uploaded on Wendover Productions

[@844SteamFan]

Well, I'm an OG fan then!

[@aayushshirodkar]

ya!

[@hunter1586]

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”

[@icekall35]

Oh crap, I posted this on the wrong channel!

[@ryanroberts1104]

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...

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

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.

[@nyxie_wolf]

I think it was probably called voorhouse. Meaning front house which is a kind of storage wherehouse in the Netherlands which is quite common

[@godowrk3360]

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

[@OzyTTv]

I’ve watched this 2 times now, once on wendover, and one on hai lol

[@JamesXYWang]

“Big dumpster fire” surprised they didn’t show a picture of MetLife stadium

[@idabthereforeiam7479]

Or staten island

[@mazzalnx]

You're both clearly new here

[@MosheKatz]

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.

[@arielfernandez8196]

0:27 that ain't no bodega, bodega means cellar/winery

[@LogsMaggot]

He gets every chance he can to throw shades at the JFK airport lmao

[@soapeea19]

“A big mayor” -Half as Interesting 2020

[@900108Chale]

I'd say *Nebula* should buy the NYC infamous triangle and replace the message now saying: *NEVER beaten by KZbin's Algorythm.*

[@quavious2940]

🤣😂🤣😂 "9 out of 10 dentists agree that you can't have buildings on roads" the logic seems flawed but it's true. 🤔 You could actually say 9 out of 10 dentists...(random bs). As long as you ask 10 dentists and 9 of them give you the same answer. Comment your 9 out of 10 dentists statistics below 😂

[@mpzakhaevski8988]

9 out of 10 dentists agree that pineapple does not belong on pizza, further studies show that if pineapple is placed on pizza, the Earth will explode.

[@kulturfreund6631]

Thanks for offering curiosity +nebula , but I’m already absorbed 8+ hours per day by KZbin. Anyhow possibly I’ll come back to it another day.