From New York magazine, some musings on a “persistent fantasy”: “The Independent Republic of New York.”
How cool our currency, the york, would be. Vera Wang could design our flags. Groucho Marx would be on our stamps. Bill Clinton could be president again.
Do check it out, especially for the mock-up of the one-york note. Nice. [Link via (Southern Cross) Words. See also, a couple of classic New Yorker covers: “New Yorkistan,” Dec. 10, 2001, by Maira Kalman and Rick Meyerowitz; and “View of the World from 9th Avenue,” Mar. 29, 1976, by Saul Steinberg.]
By the way, also from this issue, a conversation between Norman Mailer and his son John Buffalo Mailer. Okay, you caught me. I’m only linking this due to the latter’s cuteness.