January 19, 2005

Former Windows workers to open Colors restaurant

The surviving workers of Windows on the World are in the process of opening the city's first employee-run restaurant, Newsday reports. It will be called Colors and will serve "American cuisine, with changing specials from each of the 20 countries its owners represent."

Windows on the World was the restaurant on the 106th floor of the World Trade Center's north tower; 73 of its employees were killed in the Sept. 11 attacks.

The surviving workers -- 34 immigrants and one U.S.-born partner -- signed a lease yesterday for 417 Lafayette St., a location at the edge of the East Village and Greenwich Village. The restaurant will not display anything to remind people of the terrorist attacks. "We will never forget our 73 brothers and sisters, but we don't want people to come and eat at our restaurant because of 9/11," Mamdouh Fekkak, a Moroccan-born waiter, told Newsday. "People come for pity one time, but they won't come back. We want them to come to Colors because of the food and great atmosphere."

January 19, 2005 08:34 AM in Foodology

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