NEW YORK (Feb. 28) - A temporary memorial for the victims of the World Trade Center attacks will soon shine.
The “Tribute of Light” will consist of two diffused, vertical beams of light, rising from 50-foot bases in a vacant parking lot near the trade center site, said Marian Fontana, president of the Sept. 11 Widows’ and Victims’ Families Association.
Fontana discussed plans for the memorial after meeting with Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday. The mayor says he supports the idea.
The memorial will run from March 11 to April 13, and the beams will be illuminated nightly until 11 p.m.
The project would be shut down in cloudy conditions so light doesn’t spill into surrounding apartments, Bloomberg said.
The families who met with Bloomberg also asked him to help slow the pace of the trade center site redevelopment and to secure a private, indoor viewing space for families wanting to observe recovery of human remains from the site. Group representatives said the mayor was receptive to both requests.
Bloomberg had said Tuesday that the rebuilding process should be slowed rather than expedited.
