The 9/11/ Tribute in Light [original 📸 photo: T. Hopkins @TheFoodGriot] 👆🏾join patreon for FREE or as low as $3 /month to see full post and the moving image/short video version of the pic above ⬆️…
NYC residents and visitors now know and anticipate that every year after dusk on September 11th since 2002, near Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan bright beams of light will shoot upwards soaring miles high into the night sky, reaching for the stars with an unbroken and almost other worldly radiance. This Tribute in Light symbolizes the former World Trade Center twin towers and serves as beacons of remembrance with illumination visible for many miles throughout NYC’s 5 boroughs and beyond to neighboring states.
[with friend & colleague Claire Bellerjeau, Author of: “Remember Liss: at the Tribute in Light in the carousel photo gallery to the right and/or above depending on device]
I’m grateful to have seen the Tribute in Light up close last year with friends living in lower Manhattan who hosted a thoughtful gathering to connect, reflect, remember and honor souls who perished or were profoundly impacted, forever changed on that unfathomable 2001 date.
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“Remembering a Special, Surreal Place at a Pivotal Time, and the People Who Made it Possible. On September 11th, National Day of Service & Remembrance”: By Tonya Hopkins
Since opening in 1976 and prior to the terrorist attack tragedy in 2001, for a quarter century the 107th & 106th floors of the World Trade Center’s North Tower (Building One / WTC 1) were totally occupied by the renowned Windows on the World Restaurant complex. And those uppermost floors of the 110 floor tower were entirely devoted to restaurant, bar, banquet, fine dining, special events, food & beverage services. The few floors above them (108-110) weren’t used commercially nor accessible to the general public as they contained city-dependent telecommunications apparatus and mostly the vast mechanical equipment required to support a tower of such stature. So whether you were into high-end (puns & double-entendres intended) food and drink or not, Windows on The World’s 107th floor was as high up as anybody in NYC could go.
Before I was even officially working in the hospitality industry, that’s exactly where I went from 1999 to 2000 to attend my first…
July 2000 107th floor WTC 1 [photos by Konstantin Petrov / Fotki Photos]
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Windows on The World Restaurant in 1976 not long after it opened in 1976 (Photo by Ezra Stoller)