Tiles For America, Greenwich Village

Tiles For America is a 9/11 memorial consisting of hundreds of tiles expressing the thoughts and emotions of New Yorkers in the days after the attacks which are displayed on a block-long fence at the corner of 7th Avenue and 11th Street in Greenwich Village, directly across the street from the building that until recently was St. Vincent's Hospital. It was at St. Vincent's on the night of Sept. 11th that thousands of volunteers waited in line to give blood in anticipation of the arrival of survivors. Because the tiles are relatively weather-proof and the fence is on private property, this grass roots memorial stands to this day.