Windows on the World
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Windows on the World (1976-2001) was a 50,000 square foot (4,600 m²) elegant restaurant that opened in New York City, New York on top of the north tower of the World Trade Center in 1976. Windows underwent a $25 million revamp after the 1993 WTC bombing, and in the year 2000 reported revenues were $37.5 million United States dollars, making it the highest-grossing restaurant in the United States.
Windows on the World, the famed restaurant and function venue; Top of the World, a glass-enclosed observatory and outdoor observation deck; and the other World Trade Center venues were destroyed in the September 11, 2001 attacks. At the time of the attack, the restaurant was hosting a Waters Financial Technology Congress. In addition to restaurant staff, sixteen Water's employees perished as well as possibly seventy-one conference guests.
Since 9-11, there has been an ongoing attempt by former employees of the restaurant to establish another restaurant with the same name.
Windows on the World is also the title of a post-9/11 novel by Frederic Beigbeder set duing the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001, written. It was translated under the same title by Frank Wynne, whose translation won author and translator the Independent Foreign Fiction Award 2005