Windows On The World. [View All]

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That was the name of the Restaurant at the top of the North Tower, World Trade Center. Windows along with a bar call The Greatest Bar on Earth and another dining room called Wild Blue occupied the 106th and 107th floors of the tower.
I loved to go to Happy Hour at the bar during the days when I was often in NYC working. Lots of food and a good cocktail along with a view that really could not be oversold. The people there were always very nice to me, it was great fun watching the view disorient the diners, I saw more than one person stumble in evening wear dizzied by the groundless horizon that surrounded them.
It was breakfast service when the plane struck at 8:46 am. 164 people died in Windows On The World, including 72 members of the restaurant staff.
Many of the surviving employees of Windows went on to start the Restaurant Opportunities Center now the country’s largest restaurant worker organization. Part of that work includes a Restaurant on Layfayette St in Manhattan called Colors. http://www.colors-newyork.com/about.html

It was a great room that is now just a spot in the sky above lower Manhattan.
Peace to you DU.