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Distraught and
defiant residents and visitors to the United States' largest
city - long a Democratic and liberal stronghold - have stuck
anonymous messages on the walls of Manhattan's Union Square
station since Trump's Nov. 8 victory. Many of the notes express
grief or pledge to turn the country in a more liberal direction.
The New-York Historical Society removed 5,000 of the messages on
Friday, putting them between plastic sheets and archiving them
in boxes for undetermined future uses.
"We are ever-mindful of preserving the memory of today's events
for future generations," the society's president, Louise Mirrer,
said in a statement.
"Ephemeral items in particular, created with spontaneity and
emotion, can become vivid historical documents," she said.
The society has preserved reactions to other major events,
including the legalization of same-sex marriage and the Sept.
11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center.
The sticky-note installation, known as "Subway Therapy," was the
idea of a local artist who brought blank notes and pens to the
station under Union Square.
In seeking to preserve a variety of notes, workers took all the
ones from a 20-foot (6-meter) span of wall that had some of the
earliest messages posted after the election, said Margaret
Hofer, museum director at the New-York Historical Society.
The society may display the sticky notes in the future, although
not while the project is still active on subway station walls.
"To recreate it in a museum setting now is perhaps a little
premature," Hofer said.
(Reporting by David Ingram; Editing by Jonathan Oatis)
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