Windows on the World

:Not to be confused with the Window of the World theme park located in Shenzhen, China.

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Window of the World - Theme park - Shenzhen - China

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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.

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1976 - 2001 - Restaurant - New York City - New York - World Trade Center - United States dollar - United States

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Windows on the World was 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.

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September 11, 2001 attacks - Waters Financial Technology Congress

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Since 9/11, there has been an ongoing attempt by former employees of the restaurant to establish another restaurant with the same name.

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Windows on the World is also the title of a French post-9/11 novel by Frederic Beigbeder, set during the 9/11 terrorist attacks. It was translated under the same title by Frank Wynne, whose translation won both the author and the translator the Independent Foreign Fiction Award in 2005.

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French - Frederic Beigbeder - Frank Wynne - 2005

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