✅ New Jersey’s “Empty Sky” 9/11 memorial is incomplete
✅ 18 names of victims need to be added, according to the memorial’s designer
✅ The issues are in the process of being handled, according to the DEP
JERSEY CITY — There are many who believe New Jersey’s Empty Sky 9/11 memorial is in disrepair and has become an eyesore.
The design by Jessica Jamroz and Frederic Schwartz was selected by the Families and Survivors Memorial Committee and opened in 2011, although it was not complete.
The state Attorney General’s Office and the Department of Environmental Protection oversee the memorial.
What is the ‘Empty Sky’ memorial?
The memorial features brushed stainless steel twin walls that are 210 feet long, the width of each side of the World Trade Center towers. The names of 750 people who lived in or had connections to New Jersey who lost their lives at the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon and in the plane crash in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on September 11, 2001, are etched in the steel.
Problems with the ‘Empty Sky’ memorial in Jersey City
“There’s been a lot of things that have fallen into disrepair, including the lighting that illuminates the names of the victims that died on 9/11,” Jamroz told New Jersey 101.5…