Night Without Light

Night Without Light was launched by Visual AIDS in 1990, to coincide with Day Without Art. For fifteen minutes, from 7:45 PM - 8:00 PM on December 1st, the lights on Manhattan's historic buildings, bridges, monuments and theater marquees are turned off - transforming the Manhattan skyline into a visual reminder of the impact of AIDS.

Buildings including the Empire State Building, World Trade Center, Rockefeller Center, United Nations Building, St. Patrick's Cathedral, The Woolworth Building, New York Life Building, MetLife Tower, Trump Palace, Con Edison Building, Grand Central Terminal, Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, and George Washington Bridge among others.

In future years, San Francisco would join New York City and also darken its skyline by turning off the architectural illumination on key landmarks as a symbolic reflection for the lives lost due to HIV.

above image by Jake Rajs,(c) 1990