List of NYC events honoring 9/11: Vigils, ceremonies, memorials, music, art
Monday marks the 22nd anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the Twin Towers, once the centerpiece of the World Trade Center complex.
Over the past two decades, the city has found countless ways to honor the solemn day and remember the tragic loss of some 3,000 lives.
Those lives continue to be memorialized at vigils, ceremonies, memorials, tribute runs, music and public art installations.
Events taking place across the five boroughs this year include the stirring 9/11 Memorial & Museum’s annual ceremony and the stunning Tribute in Light.
Here are the 2023 events commemorating the 9/11 attacks around the city.
The 9/11 Memorial & Museum’s annual ceremony will take place at the 9/11 Memorial Plaza beginning at 8:30 a.m. Monday and continuing until approximately 1 p.m.
During the moving event, all 2,977 men, women and children who died in the 2001 attacks will have their names read — a tradition that has marked the past several years.
The event also includes six moments of silence to recognize when each of the WTC towers were struck and fell, when the Pentagon was attacked and when the hijacked Flight 93 crashed.
Memorial Plaza will not be open to the public for the ceremony and the museum will only be open for family members and others with reserved tickets.
Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to attend.
Meanwhile, the yearly traditional “Tribute in Light” — featuring two blue beams of light shining up the Manhattan skyline — can be viewed across the city from dusk to dawn
The public art installation, which on a clear night can be spotted within a 60-mile radius of the Big Apple, was first presented six months after Sept. 11, 2001, and then every year afterward to mark the solemn day.
New York City’s Fire Museum will be commemorating 9/11 with a wreath-laying ceremony at 11:30 a.m. Monday to honor 343 FDNY members killed during the attacks 22 years ago.
A permanent monument built in 2002 includes a black marble and tile memorial with pictures of the firefighters lost in the attacks arranged alphabetically.
The memorial is a large rectangular wall with two hollowed spaces to represent the Twin Towers.
New Yorkers can also view the Table of Silence Project 9/11 performance, an annual free public performance and call to action for peace to commemorate the terror attacks.
Over 150 dancers will circle the Revson Fountain at the Josie Robertson Plaza and present a piece — choreographed by Jacqulyn Buglisi in 2011 — creating an ancient Peace Labyrinth.
The event begins at 8:05 a.m. and can also be viewed via live stream.
Additionally, each year on the last Sunday of September, the Tunnel to Towers 5K Run & Walk is held.
This year’s event will take place Sept. 24, during which runners and walkers will follow the final footsteps of Stephen Siller, who ran through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel to the WTC carrying 60 pounds of firefighter gear. Siller died when the south tower collapsed.
