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Apartment Windows Become Billboards for Love and Perseverance

April 2, 2020 | 11:51 AM
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With the neighborhood stuck inside for weeks, neighbors are sending messages in a new way and making new connections in the process.

Amy Mahoney’s 8-year-old daughter Eva posted a “hi” and a heart on her window on 76th Street. Neighbors across the backyard posted their own message back, and the conversation continued.

Funny enough, we also heard from the people on the other side of this exchange. Kelsey Weeks sent us the view from her side.

And in the West 60’s, illuminated hearts began showing up in windows across the way, writes Elinore Kaplan.

“One evening a week ago, when looking out my window, which faces across a Lincoln Towers park and west towards the Hudson, something in a  window some 20 stories up in the building at 180 Riverside Boulevard caught my eye. It was a heart! Seemingly shaped in Christmas lights, it was a lovey sight to see, one neighbor sending a loving visual message to anyone who happened to look that way.

I got into the habit of looking for the heart nightly, and being reassured at the sight. Then, a few nights later, what should appear, but a second heart, three floors lower! So now, before I lay me down to sleep, I make sure to check on that caring message from my neighbors. I do wonder whether there’s a response so that they, in looking east, can see it. (Sort of like Jay Gatsby looking out across the bay.)”

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Tracie McLaughlin
Tracie McLaughlin
3 years ago

The pic at the bottom with the 2 hearts on the upper floor is actually my apartment. We put the lights up on March 21 to help share love, compassion, strength and support during this crisis. I’m glad people are enjoying it. Lets all do this and make the city shine bright!

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Linda E.
Linda E.
3 years ago
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Thanks for doing that Tracie. So good of you.

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Lord Of The Slice
Lord Of The Slice
3 years ago

what’s next? Smoke signals? :+D

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Norah Colton
Norah Colton
3 years ago

There are two lovely windows like these across the street from me. I was delighted to see them when they first appeared. Every evening at 7:00 I hear the chorus of clapping hands, cheers. It sounds like New Year’s Eve.

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Amy
Amy
3 years ago

Check out #gratitudeisMorecontagious on twitter or Instagram. Please put a heart in your window and press the love.

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