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Straphangers stick it to Trump on ‘therapy wall’

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Photos by Bob Krasner

Love trumps hate: A young girl — fittingly wearing a heart shirt — posted a thought on a sticky note on the “therapy wall” in the 14th St./Union Square subway station. The panoply of post-its has been an outlet for straphangers’ fears, anger, uncertainty and even hope, following Donald Trump’s election. Artist Matthew Chavez, who does “subway therapy,” created the wall in the W. 14th St. subway tunnel between the 1/2/3 station at Seventh Ave. and the F/L station at Sixth Ave. But the idea soon spread to other locations, like the Union Square station, where it now covers whole sections of wall in different parts of the transit hub. Governor Andrew Cuomo left a sticky note at Union Square on Nov. 20 in support of immigrants, with a reference to New York City’s iconic symbol of freedom and welcome to immigrants and some of the famous verses from the great American poem “The New Collosus” that graces it:

 

New York State holds the torch high! – Andrew C.

 ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free … I lift my lamp beside the golden door’ Emma Lazarus

STATUE OF LIBERTY

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Some of the thousands of message-bearing post-its that festoon the Union Square station.

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