Dmitri Kessel / Contributor via GettyImages Aerial view of lower Manhattan area including Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, March 1973.

Bill Pierce / Contributor via GettyImages View of lower Manhattan skyline with World Trade Center Towers at right and Statue of Liberty in foreground, October 1973.

Night view of lower Manhattan skyline with the World Trade Center towers, April 1977. It’s no surprise that the towers were a favorite of photographers over the years. When they opened in 1973 they were the tallest buildings in the world. The towers were often used as an establishing shot in media that took place in New York City-that’s how representative and emblematic they were. The installation has returned every year since.īefore September 11, 2001, the two buildings now represented by light were an iconic piece of New York City’s skyline.

It opened in 2002, one year after the attacks that destroyed New York City’s World Trade Center buildings, and was initially a temporary commemoration for the thousands who were killed. It’s an annual art installation called Tribute in Light, which is made of 88 searchlights that are installed on the top of the Battery Parking Garage. If you’re in New York City and you look toward lower Manhattan this evening you’re bound to notice the two beams of bright light shooting upwards toward the sky. The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center stand on the left. Ice forms on the Hudson River on Januduring New York’s coldest January in eight years, with temperatures dropping to minus eight degrees Fahrenheit, a 40 year low.

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