"Subway Therapy" is sticking around, just not in the stations. NY1's Jose Martinez reports on the next stop for the popular project that has allowed New Yorkers to share their feelings about the election, and more.
It began the night after the election, and became a phenomenon.
Thousands of New Yorkers have shared their feelings following Donald Trump's victory and Hillary Clinton's loss on these sticky notes posted on a subway wall.
Now "Subway Therapy" is coming down and going aboveground to the New York Historical Society.
"This is the voice of New York, it's voices of the international community. It's something that needs to be saved," said Matthew Chavez, the creator of "Subway Therapy."
Governor Cuomo, who last month left a Post-It note of his own, announced Friday that many of the sticky notes will be preserved.
He called Chavez's project a "powerful symbol that shows how New Yorkers of all ages, races, and religions came together" after the election.
Volunteers began removing the notes from beneath 14th street for transfer to the Historical Society on West 77th Street, where they will be archived as part of its History Responds Program.
"The New York Historical Society and the governor, they've been really pivotal to the advancement of the project and to have a place for it to live in the future," Chavez said.
Chavez figures that more than 15,000 notes expressing anxiety, fear and hope have been posted.
A passageway beneath 14th Street from Sixth to Seventh Avenue was the project's nerve center. Notes were left in other stations as well.
"I never really envisioned it as something that was going to be successful or not," Chavez said. "I just wanted to be there for people and you know, kind of when the flood came, I'm really happy that I was there."
Some riders said they would rather see the Post-It notes during their commute than in a museum.
"Who's going to go there? Every day, everybody walks by here, it reminds them of what we can do as people to do non-violence," one woman said.
But being preserved as a sign of the times is what Chavez envisioned for his project.
"If he started it, he wants to do it, then it's fine, you know? It's going to be in a safe place," another woman said.
The trend that started in this station passageway also spread to transit systems in Boston and San Francisco. And Chavez has said, it may also land him a book deal.
Anyone wishing to add notes to the project can do so Tuesday through Inauguration Day, January 20th, on the glass wall inside the New York Historical Society's front entrance at 77th Street.