Cables run during Tribute in Light preparations

Crew pull electronics cables along rooftop setting up for Tribute in Light memorial. A crew of 30 electricians, lighting technicians and stagehands will gather on a rooftop four blocks from the World Trade Center site in Tribeca New York City. There they will begin the production process for "Tribute in Light," the unique memorial to the victims of the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks. The team will spend the day unloading and positioning the 88 refrigerator-sized, 7,000-watt xenon searchlights comprising the memorial Tribute. When the giant lamps are turned on just before sunset on September 11th they will create two majestic blue beams whose shape and orientation echoes the twin towers. The strongest shafts of light ever projected in the night sky, the beams will shoot four miles up and be visible for 60 miles around. Tribute in Light considered by many to be one of the most powerful and healing works of public art ever conceived, was co-founded by The Municipal Art Society of New York and Creative Time. The memorial was first presented on March 11, 2002, six months after the terrorist attacks which destroyed the World Trade Center twin towers and has been presented by The Municipal Art Society every year since.