Tear of Grief
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Tear of Grief is a 10-story high sculpture by Zurab Tsereteli that will be given as an official gift of the Russian government and placed on the Jersey City waterfront across the Hudson River from where the World Trade Center fell on September 11, 2001.
The sculpture is in the form of a 10-story high tower of bronze split with a jagged opening through the middle. Inside the opening hangs a large polished titanium teardrop about three stories high to represent the tears in Moscow shed for the victims of the September 11th Terrorist Attacks. The teardrop will contain a special cooling device to produce a constant flowing of water. This causes the sculpture to appear to weep.
Tsereteli has not disclosed the cost of the sculpture except to say that he was paying for labor and materials.
Jersey City officials have approved the monument but the local Jersey City neighborhood association opposes the sculpture.