Windows On The World.

[Bluenorthwest]

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.

[Ian David]

1. I remember when my parents brought us to Top of The World when I was a kid.

The day didn't start off all that well.

They got me all dressed-up in a cute little suit and tie, and then I went into the basement to play with our kittens.

The kittens would cling to my clothes with their little kitten claws, and when I'd pull them off, they'd break threads and fibers in my cute little coat and tie.

Mom and Dad were displeased.

[MerryBlooms]

2. :*( yes. n/t

[alcibiades_mystery]

3. Spent many drunken evenings at The Greatest Bar on Earth

I have matchbooks from GBoE in with my 9/11 memorabilia. A little expensive on the cocktails, but the view compensated. :-)

[lynne]

4. Was there once, many years before 09/11 -

- believe it was lunch we had there. What I remember most was the view and I took several pictures of the South Tower from the vantage point of the North Tower.

I can't bear to look at them now.

[mainstreetonce]

5. Christmas party

We used to go to a Christmas party at Windows on the World. For some reason I was always uncomfortable in that room. The only thing I enjoyed was the view.

[frazzled]

6. I didn't know about Colors, so thank you

I'll visit it when I'm in NYC this fall, and try the Moroccan chicken sandwich. That was my old neighborhood, and frankly, the changes there are as shocking to me as the absence of the WTC. I lived in New York during the late sixties through mid seventies and saw the Towers go up, and followed the controversy that surrounded them at that time. We also used to walk over to the Public Theater over on Layfayette to see a production, and at that time it was a veritable wasteland, really. To return to see Lafayette St. (especially a little further south, around Houston) built up and full of restaurants and shops ... well, it gets a bit bittersweet for me. But I love the idea that the survivors of WIndows have gone on to create a new venture there. I will be proud to be a patron. It looks like a great place for a bite of lunch!

Lesson: all things change in cities, and all life goes on.

[Bluenorthwest]

7. Hey the Public looks good this fall too...

http://publictheater.org/content/view/244/#Downtown

[Odin2005]

8. Several of my classmate ate there during a band/choir trip to NYC in spring 2001

I have several pics of WoTW and the rest of the WTC given to me by those classmates. It is eerie looking at picks of a place that no longer exists. :(

[latebloomer]

9. Ate dinner there right before sunset once

and it was extraordinary to watch the lights going on all over the city, as far as the eye could see.

[Bluebear]

10. So very many casualties from that place, always remembered

[Little Star]

11. I have pictures that we took when we ate up there...

The company I worked at had a long weekend bus trip to NYC. We stayed at the Marriott World Trade Center Hotel, ate at Windows On The World, shopped at the Mall at the World Trade Center. Sigh.

We did many fun things on that trip including going to see Radio City Christmas Spectacular/Rockettes. It was a great long weekend.