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The Tribute in Light is an art installation of 88 searchlights placed six blocks south of the World Trade Center on top of the Battery Parking Garage [1] in New York City to create two vertical columns of light to represent the Twin Towers in remembrance of the September 11 attacks. There are 88 xenon spotlights 44 for each tower which each consume 7, watts. After the September 11 attacks, several people independently conceived the idea of using lights for remembrance, and efforts were merged under the umbrella of the Municipal Art Society and Creative Time.
Tribute in Light initially ran as a temporary installation from March 11 to April 14, , and ran again on September 11, to mark the second anniversary of the attack. It was announced that would be its final year, [2] but the tribute was continued in On December 17, , it was confirmed that the tribute would continue through to the tenth anniversary of the attacks in , but continued again in The lights are produced by an Italian company named Space Cannon, [14] who sends a team every year to help with the installation.
Each year, about 30 technicians, electricians and stagehands work for about ten days to install the lights, which also involves a testing phase of several days during which observers located in Brooklyn, Staten Island, New Jersey and uptown Manhattan help make sure that the beams are adjusted accurately.
The project was originally going to be named Towers of Light , but the victims' families felt that the name emphasized the buildings destroyed instead of the people killed. A permanent fixture of the Tribute in Light was at one point intended to be installed on the roof of One World Trade Center , [17] [18] but it was not included in the finished design.
Since , the generators that power Tribute in Light have been fueled with biodiesel made from used cooking oil collected from local restaurants. The light pollution from Tribute in Light has caused confusion for thousands of migrating birds, trapping them in the beams. It made a notable appearance during the opening credits of Spike Lee 's film 25th Hour.
The video game adaptation of the film Spider-Man 2 features the lights at the approximate location of the WTC site. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved June 7, New York Times. Retrieved September 12, Creative Time, Inc. Daily Mail. September 7, Retrieved January 27, Archived from the original on August 25, Retrieved November 4, Archived from " the original on September 14, September 10, Retrieved September 11, The Wall Street Journal.
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The Tribute in Light is an art installation of 88 searchlights placed six blocks south of the World Trade Center on top of the Battery Parking Garage [1] in New York City to create two vertical columns of light to represent the Twin Towers in remembrance of the September 11 attacks. There are 88 xenon spotlights 44 for each tower which each consume 7, watts. After the September 11 attacks, several people independently conceived the idea of using lights for remembrance, and efforts were merged under the umbrella of the Municipal Art Society and Creative Time. Tribute in Light initially ran as a temporary installation from March 11 to April 14, , and ran again on September 11, to mark the second anniversary of the attack. It was announced that would be its final year, [2] but the tribute was continued in
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