Windows on the World restaurant opened and becomes the highest dining room in New York

High-wire artist Philippe Petit, who walked a tightrope between the Twin Towers in August 1974, dines at Windows on the World with George Willig, the day after Willig scaled the South Tower of the World Trade Center.

at Windows on the World to celebrate the restaurant complex’s reopening, which followed a three-year closure resulting from the 1993 bombing.Collection 9/11 Memorial Museum, Gift of John McGuire.

Collection 9/11 Memorial Museum, Gift of Sarah Merians Photography &amp; Video Company.

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Windows on the World restaurant

Windows on the World closed after the 1993 bombing, in which employee Wilfredo Mercado was killed while checking in deliveries in the building's underground garage. It reopened on June 26, 1996.

Windows on the World restaurant

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