by
Bradley Rose, Senior Designer | September 13, 2007
The 9/11 Tribute
in Light as seen
with the lighting
base.
This image of the 9/11 Tribute in Light was taken from the DOTmed.com corporate offices in Lower Manhattan near Ground Zero.
The Tribute in Light was a temporary art installation of 88 searchlights placed next to the site of the World Trade Center from March 11 to April 14, 2002 to create two vertical columns of light in remembrance of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The tribute was launched again in 2003, to mark the second anniversary of the attack, and has been done every year since on September 11, to mark the anniversary.
On clear nights, the lights could be seen from over 60 miles away, clearly visible in all of New York City and most of suburban Northern New Jersey and Long Island, Fairfield, Connecticut, Westchester County and Rockland County, New York. The beams were clearly visible from the terrace at Century Country Club in Purchase, NY. Pilots have claimed to have seen the beams from their cockpits in the sky over Cleveland, Ohio.
The project was originally going to be named Towers of Light until some people complained that the name emphasized the buildings destroyed instead of the people killed.
