Downtowners looking across the Hudson River will someday see two twin beams of light every night to honor the memory of the nearly 700 New Jersey residents who were killed in the Sept. 11 attack.
A design by Frederic Schwartz, a Hudson Square architect who also lives in Lower Manhattan, was selected by a jury, made up of 12 relatives of 9/11 victims.
Schwartz’s “Empty Sky” design includes two rectangular-shaped walls 30-feet high and 200-feet wide in the shape of the Twin Towers. Two beams of light would shine from the steel walls every night. The memorial will be in Jersey City’s Liberty State Park opposite the World Trade Center site. The walls would have the names of each New Jersey victim.
“ ‘Empty Sky’ remembers those lost while simply and powerfully connecting New Jersey to Ground Zero,” Schwartz wrote in his artist statement.
A jury made up. New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey, in announcing the design June 30, reportedly said it will cost $7 million to build. No start or completion date was announced.
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