PHOTOS: 14th Street Subway Tunnel Filled With Post-Its Grieving Trump's Win

THE FLATIRON DISTRICT, NY — Hundreds of subway commuters stuck post-it notes with breathtaking messages on the wall in the 14th Street and Sixth Avenue subway station tunnel in the 48 hours following the election to collectively grieve Donald Trump's win on Tuesday. The pastel Post-It notes took up several feet of the tunnel's walls, and dozens of people stood reading them all day on Thursday while others wrote some of their own and added to the list.

Jessie, 19, wrote "END RAPE CULTURE" on her post-it. "I'm afraid the leader of our country inspires people to endorse this behavior," she told Patch, nearly in tears.

A student on Pace University, Jessie said the mood on campus was mournful. "Either everyone's talking about it or no one's talking at all," she said. "It's a little hard to be positive, but fake it 'til you make it."

Brooklyn resident George Roushakes, 46, said he's been especially struggling to overcome political differences with members of his family who voted for Trump in the past few days.

"It's like a political civil war, even within my family," Roushakes said. "Right now it's still hard, it's still a political hangover. The answer is just dialogue."

"A tremendous amount of people have had their voices unheard, and they now have a megaphone to voice their opinion," Roushakes added. "I don't agree with so much of it, but being heard is what everyone wants."

Roushakes' posted two post-it notes that said "The world will be one and we will keep turning," and "One cannot surpass the sum of the nation."

Matthew Chavez, 28, is the organizer of the project, which is called "subway therapy." He said he didn't have to get a permit to just set up camp in the tunnel and do it.

"I think people have been overwhelmingly happy to have some place to express their frustration," Chavez told Patch.

One of the notes that struck a deep chord with Chavez was by a mother of a 9-year-old son. She said she was struggling to tell her own child how a bully could become president after she had spent hours talking to him about how wrong it was to be one.

When asked how he felt about the election outcome, Chavez said he was actually neutral about it.

"I think that this isn't really time for me to put in my opinion as a person," Chavez said. "The way we grow is through dynamic conversation and sometimes when you ascribe to a certain side or label yourself in a certain way, it stops people from trying to communicate with you, and I want to prevent that today as much as possible."

Photos by Sarah Kaufman/Patch