NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) – What’s on your mind?
Dozens of colorful sticky notes answering that question now wallpaper the tunnel between the 6 Avenue and 14th Street subway stations. It’s part of a project called “Subway Therapy” that’s set up shop in the Manhattan station for election week.
“It is feeling scary right now, but it will be ok!” one sticky note read.
The sticky note project will be at the station every day from 2-8 p.m. until Saturday, organizer Matthew Chavez told popular social media account Subway Creatures.
“Subway Therapy is a project that invites people to talk to each other through writing. It’s a way of inviting peaceful expression and doing community building,” Chavez said.
Many sticky notes focused on the election, but many made personal and unrelated remarks about relationships, love, the future, and even the Knicks.
"I want to keep getting better every day," another person wrote on a sticky note.
Chavez has been prompting straphangers for eight years, and many of the sentiments this week are similar to sticky notes past, he wrote in a post to Instagram.
Subway riders also shared their feelings after the 2016 election in the same tunnel.
“I imagined that people were going to be writing about the election, and I was really surprised and delighted to see that people are just writing about their lives, they’re writing about themselves, their experience, what they’re going through,” Chavez said.
People were also encouraged to talk to each other face-to-face at a “Listening Lab NYC” booth.
Emily Rahhal is a digital reporter who has covered New York City since 2023 after reporting in Los Angeles for years. She joined PIX11 in 2024. See more of her work here and follow her on Twitter here.
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