The Tribute in Light is an art installation created in remembrance of the September 11 attacks. It consists of 88 vertical searchlights arranged in two columns of light to represent the Twin Towers. It stands six blocks south of the World Trade Center on top of the Battery Parking Garage in New York City. Tribute in Light began as a temporary commemoration of the attacks in early 2002, but it became an annual event, currently produced on September 11 by the Municipal Art Society of New York. The Tribute in Light was conceived by artists John Bennett, Gustavo Bonevardi, Richard Nash Gould, Julian LaVerdiere, and Paul Myoda, and lighting consultant Paul Marantz.
Tribute in Light as seen from Jersey City in 2020
The Pentagon's Tribute in Light seen from the White House in 2021
Tribute in Light as seen from Brooklyn in 2014
Tribute in Light as seen from atop a parking garage in Battery Park in 2018
A searchlight is an apparatus that combines an extremely bright source with a mirrored parabolic reflector to project a powerful beam of light of approximately parallel rays in a particular direction. It is usually constructed so that it can be swiveled about.
ATS officers-in-training crew a 90 cm searchlight in Western Command, 1944
Russian troops use a searchlight against a Japanese night attack during the Russo-Japanese War, 1904
Homeland Security helicopter utilizing its searchlight.
American searchlight crew and equipment in France during WWI