Tribute in Light featured-custom-gifts-reprints Staff photographer James Estrin was

Staff photographer James Estrin was on assignment taking photographs of passengers for an article on higher demand of the city's taxi cabs

propeller-driven biplane covered 120 feet on its inaugural flight

which over the years have gone from glittering gold on bright blue to algae green under a thick coat of grime

The "new car" was the Model A

The Atlantic would not be crossed nonstop by air again until Charles Lindbergh's flight in the Spirit of St

Tribute in Light featured-custom-gifts-reprints Staff photographer James Estrin wasEighty eight searchlights, next to the site of the World Trade Center, create two vertical columns of light on the 10 year anniversary of the 9 11 attacks, Sept. 11, 2011. The photo was taken from New Jersey by Pulitzer Prize winning Times photographer Damon Winter.