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.
Those working on the project came up with the concept in the week following the attack. Architects John Bennett and Gustavo Bonevardi of PROUN Space Studio distributed their "Project for the Immediate Reconstruction of Manhattan's Skyline".
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.
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