The annual Tribute in Light, presented by the Municipal Art Society, will start at dusk on 11 September and be on display through dawn on 12 September.

BBC: 11 September history tour of New York

Few survive to tell the tale of the German battleship, Schleswig-Holstein, unleashing a barrage of 280mm and 170mm shells at a Polish fort and shattering the dawn breaking over the Westerplatte peninsula in the free city of Danzig on 1 September 1939.

BBC: Watching the start of World War II