On a cold winter’s night in January 1917, [socialist artists] mounted to the top of Washington Arch and strung up some balloons. [Gertrude Drick] then read aloud the document she and Ellis had prepared, declaring the secession of Greenwich Village from the America of big business and small minds. They called on President Wilson to extend protection to their domain as one of the small nations, the “Free and Independent Republic of Washington Square.”
“Declaration of Independence of the Greenwich Republic” John Sloan Manuscript Collection, Delaware Art Museum.
Capital One Opening Coffee-Shop-Meets-Bank Concept on Union Square
Our savvy NYC & SF Café Associates demo’d mbl check deposits to on-the-go Savers. No paper cuts, no writer’s cramp. pic.twitter.com/NWhCb2hkCQ
— Capital One 360 (@CapitalOne360) May 28, 2013
