Empty Sky, September 11 memorial in Jersey City, United States
Empty Sky is a memorial for the September 11 attacks in Jersey City along the Hudson River shoreline. Two parallel steel walls face each other and form a narrow passage that points directly toward the spot where the World Trade Center once stood.
The memorial opened in 2011, ten years after the attacks, and honors victims from New Jersey. It was designed so that the view reaches across the river to the site of the former World Trade Center.
The name comes from a Bruce Springsteen song about the changed Manhattan skyline after the events of September 11. Visitors see the names of victims etched in steel letters that look through the open structure toward Lower Manhattan.
Access is through Liberty State Park, which can be reached from the nearby train station and by ferries from Manhattan. The memorial stands open under the sky and can be visited at any time without admission.
The two walls are positioned so that at sunrise you see light through them over the spot where the towers stood. On certain days of the year, the sun casts shadows that trace the outline of the former buildings.
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