Of all of the annual memorials that commemorate the victims of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, the Tribute in Light is the one that continues to stop New Yorkers in their tracks — even after almost two decades. But in 2020, the tone was different. NYC has been inching out of the cocoon of a deadly pandemic that suppressed the city’s energy for months. After nearly a half year of Covid-19 quarantine, the city started showing life again.