GREENWICH  VILLAGE
 

JX the resolute spirit of another
Andorra, the village of Green¬
wich maintains its independ¬
ence in the very midst of the
city of New York—submitting
to no more of a compromise
in the matter of its autonomy
than is involved in the Pro¬
crustean sort of splicing which
has hitched fast the extremi-
.j^-'ls.    -'           ties of its tangled streets to the

t* ! ^ 1 most readily available streets
in the City Plan. The flip¬
pant carelessness with which
this apparent union has been
effected only serves to empha¬
size the actual separation. In
almost every case these ill-advised couplings are
productive of anomalous disorder, while in the
case of the numbered streets they openly trav¬
esty the requirements of communal propriet)-
and of common-sense: as may be inferred from
the fact that within this disjointed region Fourth
Street crosses Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth streets