If you think your apartment is small...

There's one smaller in Amsterdam

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!