Garny's New York

I travel through the Union Square subway station almost everyday to get home and to school. From school I get on the six train, which is usually overcrowded with commuters, to get off one stop to 14st. After I maze through the overly packed train car I make my up the stairs and head to the platform to position myself for the arrival of the Q train. En route I to the platform I look to my left and see people walking back and forth, meticulously examining a very vibrant and colorful wall. I might have seen this wall once or twice before but never really took the time to understand what it was. On this day I slowed down and in some sense entered into a new space, like I’ve entered a museum without opening a door. As I joined the audience viewing the comments posted by anonymous people on colorful post-it notes, I realized that this wall was a reaction to the results of the presidential election. I got the sense of being an onlooker of a very historical period in American History. I thought to myself “this is going to be in the textbooks that my kids will read”, and that I could actually say that I saw how it affected the community and myself. The election has caused a lot of turbulence in the lives of many New Yorkers and citizens across the nation. The way in which the people at the 14st station displayed their thoughts and opinions across the wall was very beautiful and creative. The preconceived notion of wall has taken on pretty negative connotation, which was boastfully perpetrated by Donald Trump. Using the wall in Union Square to promote people’s ideas and opinions, often ideas of peace, love, and positivity, in a peaceful matter surly captures the image that many New Yorkers have for what America should be in a very creative and vibrant way.While the country is more divided than previously presumed, efforts like this, I believe, will push for more unity and more involvement in the American political system.

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