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Remembering 9/11 (Tribute in Light)
Tribute in Light is a temporary art installation of 88 searchlights that was 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.
Until this year the lights have been located in a parking lot about 2 blocks north of the World trade Center site. This year that parking lot is now the construction site of the new Goldman Sachs tower. The lights were moved 6 blocks south of the WTC site to roof of the Battery Garage owned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
On clear nights, the lights can 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. 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 who died.
The light display cost the city of New York about $350,000 a year to display. Because of this cost, The New York Times reported that the future of the lights is uncertain past 2009
About this photo: I took this photo in 2005 in Jersey City near the Exchange Place PATH Station. Directly behind me, is a sculpture made out of steel that was recovered from the WTC.
This is the final photo in this series.
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I would like to thank everyone for all of your supportive comments on the photos in this series and the Personal Messages I have received from you. Thank you for staying with me during this very personal journey. Much progress has taken place in the past six years. The site is filled with cranes as the rebuilding continues. If you visit the site today you can see:
-- World Trade Center 7 -- Completed March 2006. This is the 1st of the new buildings to be finished. It is now 75% rented.
-- Expansion of the bathtub. The slurry wall is being expanded to increase the size of the site. This wall keeps the waters of the Hudson River out of the site.
-- Deutsche Bank Building -- This once 40 story office tower completed in 1974 has now been whittled down to 26 stories as it is slowly being deconstructed. That process is now on hold as two firefighters lost their lives putting out a fire in the building that was started by careless smoking by a construction worker.
--Transportation Center -- The foundation of this structure is well on the way that when completed will look something like a Venus Fly Trap.
-- Freedom Tower -- The foundation is completed and the floors are starting to rise from the pit. By the end of the year, it should be visible above street level.
| Camera: | Nikon COOLPIX 5700  Check out Nikon Nation! |
| Title: | Remembering 9/11 (10) |
| Username: | 
TyChee |
| Uploaded: | 18 Sep 2007 - 12:43 PM |
| Tags: | 9/11, General, New york city, Photo journalism, World trade center |
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Absolutely perfect end to your very moving journey Ty.... your images have obviously been painful for you and very meaningful to all of us and your very well written notes have been a tribute to not only those who died but for those who lived too... helen x
Brilliant. Well done on a magnificent series of pictures.
Robin
This shot has a very poignant message Ty.Very emotional image.
Tom.
Wonderful image Ty, its been a great series, thanks for the descriptions and your memories.
Steve
Thank you for sharing this, I have just looked at this whole series and words afil me, a really poignant series of work! Jane
Once again thank you for sharing with us all
You did a wonderful series and it has touched our hearts and WE will always Remember.
Absolutely stunning.
Those lights are amazing.
I praise your bravery, in what must be a very heart wrenching project for you.
This has been an amazing series Ty & I thank you whole heartedly.
Take care.
Hilary
A great finale to a remarkable series Ty, I really have appreciated your sharing it with us.
You have put this together so well I do believe it deserves a wider audience than this site provides, someone suggested earlier you should publish it....I agree!
Rgds., Jim
It has been an honour to read your accounts and thoughts of this event, I hope one day someone will make a book or get memories like this on a DVD so the suffering of those that lived through it can be passed on, It gets so twisted in the media.
Thanks for having the courage to share.......
Steve, ( England not Canada as the flag suggests )
Your photographs and their associated write ups have shown the more human side of the event. Being in the UK we have only seen what the 'television' wanted to show us. Your account, coming from someone who was actually there, and lived through it, has been very moving.
Thank you.
A beautiful image to finish this series, Ty. Well done series altogether. Thanky you once again.
Johanna
I agree with Jim that this series should have a much wider audience. Your presentations and personal accounts gave me a much more personal understanding of the effects of this tragedy. Thank you for sharing this very insightful and moving personal account.
A fine finale to this poignant and insightful series which you've narrated extremely eloquently, many thanks for sharing your personal memories with us, Ed
Ty this has been an eye opener to all who have followed this, I am finding it hard to put in words how it has made feel my heart & thoughts go out to you and everyone else who have been effected by the meaningless act, and hope that you can get some peace in your mind after putting this in words which you have done very well.
as many have already written you should write a book about your experience after 9/11
thanks for sharing this with us
take care
Glynnis
Once again, thank you for sharing your personal experience of this.
Lucy
It's been an interesting experience catching up with these final 9/11 uploads all in one go - what is striking is the balance of intimate, personal detail and the 'bigger picture'. This is the best and most moving coverage of the events, at every level, that I've seen. Thank you for sharing it.
Moira
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