If you think your apartment is small...

daniel

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/bigpic.jsp?cap=london+house+5ft&photoid=20050830LON809.jpg&searchpage=photosearch.jsp&first=

A London home, in dark paint at centre, which is just 5ft 5ins (162.7 cm) wide in places has gone on the market for 525,000 pounds (dlrs 945,315 US), it emerged Tuesday Aug. 30, 2005. The property, which is in Goldhawk Road, Shepherds Bush area of London, measures 9ft 11ins (298 cm) at its widest point and is described by the property agent as "utterly amazing". The bathroom is so tiny that it only contains the bath and a bedroom has a built-in bed to save space. (AP Photo / Michael Stephens/PA)

alafairnadia

holy shit! that's hysterical.

oiseau

There's one smaller in Amsterdam

carnivore

With the price of real estate in NY, I'm surprised no one's tried building one of those in any of Manhattan's alleys.

http://www.forgotten-ny.com/Alleys/LOWER MANHATTAN/lower.html

daveb

Carnivore wrote: With the price of real estate in NY, I'm surprised no one's tried building one of those in any of Manhattan's alleys.

http://www.forgotten-ny.com/Alleys/LOWER MANHATTAN/lower.html

Y'know, I keep forgetting about that website. With you having just inadvertently reminded me of it, I started browsing and shee-it... there was a minor battle in Prospect Park (pre park existence) during the revolutionary war?

Prospect Park was the setting of an outright rout of American Revolutionary forces by the British, Scottish Highlanders, and Hessian mercenary troops during the Battle of Brooklyn early in the morning of August 27, 1776. A rag tag group of volunteer soldiers, many of them teenagers, were dug in on a hill in what is now the eastern section of Prospect Park south of Grand Army Plaza, along today's East Drive just north of the Zoo, waiting for what was then the world’s mightiest fighting force to approach them. But British General Henry Clinton devised a plan of attack that would sneak up behind the colonists and take them by surprise. Completely flummoxed, those colonists not shot or bayoneted fled "Battle Pass" toward the Old Stone House at Gowanus Creek. There, a brave Maryland regiment stood their ground and helped many of the Americans to flee.

The main remnant of the battle today is the park’s topography. Except for East Drive, this heavily wooded part of the park looks much as it did that day in 1776. Two markers along East Drive just north of Prospect Park Zoo point out the sites of the rebel defenses and Valley Grove House, a tavern that stood near the battle site. Another monument marks the spot where colonists felled a large white oak tree across the old Flatbush Road in a futile attempt to stop the onrushing British forces.

http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/secretprospect/secretprospect.html

I really dig snooping around battlefields. Really old dead people rule!

carnivore

daveb wrote:

Prospect Park was the setting of an outright rout of American Revolutionary forces by the British, Scottish Highlanders, and Hessian mercenary troops during the Battle of Brooklyn early in the morning of August 27, 1776. A rag tag group of volunteer soldiers, many of them teenagers, were dug in on a hill in what is now the eastern section of Prospect Park south of Grand Army Plaza, along today's East Drive just north of the Zoo, waiting for what was then the world’s mightiest fighting force to approach them. But British General Henry Clinton devised a plan of attack that would sneak up behind the colonists and take them by surprise. Completely flummoxed, those colonists not shot or bayoneted fled "Battle Pass" toward the Old Stone House at Gowanus Creek. There, a brave Maryland regiment stood their ground and helped many of the Americans to flee.

The main remnant of the battle today is the park’s topography. Except for East Drive, this heavily wooded part of the park looks much as it did that day in 1776. Two markers along East Drive just north of Prospect Park Zoo point out the sites of the rebel defenses and Valley Grove House, a tavern that stood near the battle site. Another monument marks the spot where colonists felled a large white oak tree across the old Flatbush Road in a futile attempt to stop the onrushing British forces.

http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/secretprospect/secretprospect.html

I think they're talking about the famous Dongan Oak. There's a plaque marking the site along the eastern part of the big loop. The plaques for "Valley Grove House" at the top of the hill, where the American artillery were placed, and "Battle Pass" are only a few yards away.


BTW, I am such a nerd.