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March 8th, 2004, 02:44 PM
NY1 News
March 8, 2004
Design Unveiled For WTC Memorial In Brooklyn
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The winning design for a memorial to the hundreds of Brooklyn residents who died in the World Trade Center attack was unveiled Monday.
The 25-foot-high bronze memorial is shaped like a speaking trumpet, like the ones once used by the city’s volunteer firefighters. A beacon of light will shine from the top every night from 9-11 p.m.
“I thought it was a fitting memorial,” said the artist, Robert Ressler, a Brooklyn native, “because it was very slender. In its large form, blown up to 25 feet, it becomes somewhat abstract. It becomes a tower, and that’s the idea of heaving the beacon into the sky. I thought it would create a sense of hope and also act like a lighthouse, something that could be seen from three nautical miles away.”
The memorial will be installed before September 11 on the 69th Street Pier in Bay Ridge. The site is fitting, officials say, because the pier has views of Lower Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty.
“The surviving families of those lost from Brooklyn, along with their neighbors and all residents of the borough and our city, will now have a place to go and remember and reflect,” said state Senator Martin Golden. “As the terrorists sought to tear us apart, this memorial only shows us the strength of us all, a people united even more than ever.”
The memorial will be made in a Brooklyn foundry, and students will be invited to watch the work progress.
The design was selected from a pool of 45 entries.
Copyright © 2004 NY1 News
March 8, 2004
Design Unveiled For WTC Memorial In Brooklyn
http://www.ny1.com/Content/images/live/58/115972.JPG
The winning design for a memorial to the hundreds of Brooklyn residents who died in the World Trade Center attack was unveiled Monday.
The 25-foot-high bronze memorial is shaped like a speaking trumpet, like the ones once used by the city’s volunteer firefighters. A beacon of light will shine from the top every night from 9-11 p.m.
“I thought it was a fitting memorial,” said the artist, Robert Ressler, a Brooklyn native, “because it was very slender. In its large form, blown up to 25 feet, it becomes somewhat abstract. It becomes a tower, and that’s the idea of heaving the beacon into the sky. I thought it would create a sense of hope and also act like a lighthouse, something that could be seen from three nautical miles away.”
The memorial will be installed before September 11 on the 69th Street Pier in Bay Ridge. The site is fitting, officials say, because the pier has views of Lower Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty.
“The surviving families of those lost from Brooklyn, along with their neighbors and all residents of the borough and our city, will now have a place to go and remember and reflect,” said state Senator Martin Golden. “As the terrorists sought to tear us apart, this memorial only shows us the strength of us all, a people united even more than ever.”
The memorial will be made in a Brooklyn foundry, and students will be invited to watch the work progress.
The design was selected from a pool of 45 entries.
Copyright © 2004 NY1 News