UPPER WEST SIDE — New York suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton got a special Election Day sticker shout-out on Tuesday thanks to Pokémon Go.
The first sticker was placed by Jennifer Truelove, 45, an assistant film director, who said she initially discovered the plaque commemorating the pioneer's last home at 250 W. 94th St. playing the popular mobile game. The plaque had been designated as a "Poké stop."
"I saw a story about people putting stickers on Susan B. Anthony's grave, and I live right there, so thought I would put my sticker there," Truelove said.
When she returned to the site several hours later, eight more stickers had been added next to hers, she said.
"What matters to me most is that presumably these are not just women's stickers, but also men who got to vote for a woman, which is unprecedented."
Dozens of people flocked to Susan B. Anthony's gravesite in Rochester, N.Y. to place a sticker on her headstone to commemorate the contributions of the suffragettes, who fought for womens' right to vote, on Election Day, USA Today reported.
Cady Stanton, whose husband co-founded the Republican Party, was a friend of Anthony's and co-founded of the National Woman Suffrage Association.
Several stickers were also seen affixed to the statue of former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, a memorial that was dedicated by Hillary Clinton in 1996, located at Riverside Park and West 72nd Street.
Visitors of Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx were encouraged to place their stickers on cardboard signs placed near the burial sites of four suffragists today, including at the graves of Cady Stanton, Carrie Chapman Catt, who founded the League of Women Voters, Mary Garrett Hay, who assisted her; and millionaire Alva Vanderbilt Belmont, who contributed large sums to the movement, according to the New York Times.
Lila Newman, 30, an actor and writer, took a selfie in front of the Cady Stanton's plaque and commented on how Clinton's presidential run has evoked feminist pride in younger New Yorkers like herself.
"It's funny, I went to private schools in New York and I went to college, and we really didn't really learn much about the Women's Movement. I think it's a thing a lot of people have to self-educate about this election season, so I had to pause here today," she said.
