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{{Short description|Defunct restaurant in New York City}}
{{About||the 1967 Dionne Warwick song |The Windows of the World (song)|other uses|Window on the World (disambiguation)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2024}}
{{Infobox restaurant
| name              = Windows on the World
| logo              =
| logo_width        = frameless
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| image             = Windows on the world logo.png
| image_width       = frameless
| image_alt         =
| image_caption     = Logo designed by [[Milton Glaser]]
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| established       = {{start date and age|April 19, 1976}}
| closed            = September 11, 2001<br>(destroyed in the [[September 11 attacks]])
| current-owner     =
| previous-owner    = [[David Emil]]
| chef              =
| head-chef         = [[Michael Lomonaco]]
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| street-address    = [[1 World Trade Center (1971–2001)|1 World Trade Center]], 107th Floor, [[Manhattan]], New York City, NY, U.S.
| city              = [[New York City]], New York
| postcode          = 10048
| country           = United States
| coordinates       = {{Coord|40|42|44|N|74|0|47|W|type:landmark_region:US-NY|display=inline,title}}
| seating-capacity  = 240
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| website    = {{official website|1=https://web.archive.org/web/20010331055814/http://www.windowsontheworld.com/|2= windowsontheworld.com (archived)}}
}}
'''Windows on the World''' was a complex of dining, meeting, and entertainment venues on the top floors (106th and 107th) of the [[1 World Trade Center (1971–2001)|North Tower]] (Building One) of the original [[World Trade Center (1973–2001)|World Trade Center]] complex in [[Lower Manhattan]], New York City, United States.<ref name="wtcrestaurantsframe">{{Cite web |title=Fine Dining, Eateries/Specialty Foods |url=http://www.panynj.gov/wtc/wtcrestaurantsframe.htm |publisher=[[Port Authority of New York and New Jersey]] |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20010609000157/http://www.panynj.gov/wtc/wtcrestaurantsframe.htm |archivedate=June 9, 2001 |access-date=January 12, 2022 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

It included a restaurant called Windows on the World, a smaller restaurant called Wild Blue<ref name="wtcrestaurantsframe"/> (before 1999 was called "Cellar in the Sky"), a bar called The Greatest Bar on Earth<ref name="wtcrestaurantsframe"/> (which had previously been the Hors d'Oeuvrerie<ref>{{cite web |last1=Morabito |first1=Greg |title=Windows on the World, New York's Sky-High Restaurant |url=https://ny.eater.com/2013/9/11/6547477/windows-on-the-world-new-yorks-sky-high-restaurant |website=Eater NY |access-date=February 26, 2022 |location=New York City |language=en-US |date=September 11, 2013}}</ref>) as well as a wine school and conference and banquet rooms for private functions located on the 106th floor. Developed by [[restaurateur]] [[Joe Baum]] and designed initially by [[Warren Platner]], Windows on the World occupied {{convert|50000|sqft|m2}} of space in the North Tower. The Skydive Restaurant, which was a 180 seat [[cafeteria]] on the 44th floor of 1 WTC conceived for office workers, was also operated by Windows on the World.<ref name="grimes">{{Cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06E0D9153BF93AA2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=travel&spon=&pagewanted=all |title=Windows That Rose So Close To the Sun |date=September 19, 2001 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |last=Grimes |first=William |access-date=September 18, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017071647/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06E0D9153BF93AA2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=travel&spon=&pagewanted=all |archive-date=October 17, 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Roston |first=Tom |title=The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World: The Twin Towers, Windows on the World, and the Rebirth of New York |date=2019 |publisher=Abrams Books |location=New York City |isbn=978-1-4197-3799-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VRSJDwAAQBAJ&dq=skydive+restaurante+wtc&pg=PT62 |access-date=July 18, 2022 |language=en-US}}</ref>

The restaurants opened on April 19, 1976,<ref>{{cite news |title=Trade Center to Let Public In for Lunch At Roof Restaurant |url= http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70814FC3E5F167493C4A8178FD85F428785F9 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=April 16, 1976 |access-date=October 15, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Windows '96 |date=July 15, 1996 |publisher=New York Magazine |location=New York City |pages=42–47 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QuECAAAAMBAJ&dq=joe+baum+arthur+emil&pg=PA42 |access-date=January 1, 2022 |via=Google Books}}</ref> and were destroyed in the [[September 11 attacks]].<ref name="grimes" /> All of the staff members who were present in the restaurant on the day of the attacks perished; the plane's impact severed all means of escape from the 92nd floor up.<ref name="grimes"/>