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It's arguably one of the most beloved ways the city remembers the September 11, 2001 attacks—the Tribute in Light, which has beacons of light shimmer from lower Manhattan into the sky starting at dusk on September 11 and fading away at dawn on September 12. But the funding for the installation has run out!
The Post reports, "The World Trade Center's annual Tribute in Light could go dark next September... A $3 million grant from the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. to run the beloved tribute expired last year." Earlier this month, Frank Sanchis, senior vice president at the Municipal Art Society (the MAS and Creative Time brought the designers of the tribute together) told City Room, "I’m hopeful that, working with the L.M.D.C., we can find the funding to do it in 2009."
We're hopeful too—the Tribute in Light is part of the commemoration fabric and we can't imagine an anniversary without it.
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LASERS!!!
This should be a permanent, year round memorial, and there is now way it should cost millions of dollars - for any period of time.
And with the additional benefit of temporarily blinding any pilots up there who might have ideas.
Just have Mike Bloomberg cut a check for it, it'll be fine.
This should have been budgeted to run through the completion of the actual memorial. Who planned this?
This is over a year away I'm sure somehow or someone will give them money to run it.
"A $3 million grant from the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. to run the beloved tribute expired last year."
WTF? $3m for a light tribute? After 8 years of light and other seemingly non-stop tributes, it is time to move on. And in the faltering NYC economy there are numerous and better uses for that money.
I don't even want to know how they managed to blow through 3 million dollars on this.
You have to realize that spotlights of that intensity are extremely expensive. They also need yearly setup and removal. Plus support equipment like electric generators, transformers, and electric lines. And finally all the fuel needed to run the generators, which had to provide 3 megawatts continuously. Is it that strange that it cost $300,000 a year?
$3m really wouldn't make much of a dent in a trillion dollar city economy. It can cost that much just to stage a live concert. It's pocket change for our esteemed mayor. He should fund it himself.
A 9/11 without a tribute in lights? That would be the worst 9/11 ever!
What do you mean? We'll still get presents.