New York – New Yorkers struggling with post-election stress have found an outlet for the blues — by pouring their political souls onto sticky notes that fill walls of a Manhattan subway station.
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In the days after Republican Donald Trump won the White House, Democrat Hillary Clinton’s loss brought many of her New York supporters to tears — even in public.
Enter 28-year-old Brooklyn artist Matthew Chavez, known as Levee. He set up a table in a long tunnel of the Union Square station where he hands out the blank pastel notes on which straphangers scribble.
He calls this “Subway Therapy.” It’s free.
More than 1,500 people have shared their grief and anxiety since Wednesday, posting thoughts on the white subway tiles, according to Subway Therapy’s Instagram.
One reads, “You will not divide us. Love is everything.” Another says, “It doesn’t end today.”
One says “If they go low, we go high,” echoing first lady Michelle Obama.
The uplifting art installation counterbalances what Clinton supporters say is Trump’s racism, bigotry and ignorance.
Another sticky note offers soothing words, saying, “Everything will be alright.” But a few feet over, another person wasn’t so sure: “What do we do now?”
There was an answer amid the sea of impromptu messages.
“We’ve been through worse (meaning 9/11) and the city will unite,” the light pink sticky note said. “We will get through this together because love trumps hate.”
hey New Yorkers – get over it – AMERICA HAS A NEW PRESIDENT TRUMP who will reshape the once UNITED States of America and make America the greatest nation in the world that it once was.
If you’re old enough to remember President Ronald Reagan who lead America to prosperity, leadership in the entire world, where even the Iranians were terrified of him even before he moved into the white house, then you’ll see it again under PRESIDENT TRUMP.
This is so NYC and I love it.
That’s right, kiddies. Work it all out with your post-it notes. It beats rioting.
Then, when you’re done venting, maybe you can contribute to making America Great Again,
This generation would have been destroyed by the Japanese and lost WWII.
3/4 of these people are unemployed. Why don’t you all go get jobs!
Hey Yonasonw, which poster is yours? I was looking for it.Don’t worry love trumps hate and Trump will unify all you haters.
Trump4prez, where is your note. Did you become a chump?
Hashomer, Is this in your kensington station that you through Trump underneath?
The news media will repeatedly show a swastika which someone made with a note “make America white again”. However, it won’t report or even show a tape of several Blacks beating up an elderly White man in Chicago, stating that it was payback for him voting for Trump; also, it won’t report a Black person choking a White person on a subway train in the Bronx, because he was wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat. The news media is one sided, and never reports hate crimes of Blacks against Whites, or Blacks against Jews. However, when it is the other way around, there is non-stop coverage!