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Real Estate Remnants

In a twist to typical New York real estate greed by Gotham developers, a recent property assessment by the city surveyor, based on a property index number digitalization program, has indicated that the largest property owner in New York was a former surveyor staff employee who worked as a property deed assessor.  According to the report, Melvin Orr, now retired, was responsible for comparing historical survey data, often measured in chains, metes and bounds, sometimes dating back to Colonial times, to new digital surveys provided through recent property transfers. 

His work indicated that the new digital surveys identified all real estate puzzle pieces left over as slivers of property that were not accounted for.  For his work at teh city, Melvin had identified all the slivers, identified them by survey descriptions and registered those properties under his name as a way of keeping the real estate of the city accounted for.   Assuming that the sliver parcels were unbuildable, Melvin deeded the parcels over to local charities in New York City, and consequently most real estate in the city has a deed restriction of sale on part of their properties controlled by these charities.