New York Responds: The First Six Months is part of a Museum-wide project documenting and interpreting New York City during the COVID pandemic and the racial justice uprisings of 2020, and looking toward the future of New York. The exhibition was crowd-sourced from tens of thousands of submissions received via Instagram, through email, and from partner institutions across the city who have been working to collect the stories of this historic moment. A jury of New Yorkers from many walks of life reviewed and voted on the submissions and guided the curators in the creation of the exhibition.