A group of workers from Windows on the World have reopened a newly renovated restaurant that honors their friends who died in the World Trade Center. At the restaurant COLORS on the Lower East Side, they gathered Wednesday, just as they have for 18 years - a family forever connected by 9/11.
The place was founded by surviving employees of the Windows on the World restaurant, which sat at the top of the World Trade Center's North Tower.
"We had the, I dunno the luck, of being on top of Manhattan," said Sol Policar. "Of looking down at one of the greatest cities in the world."
"I see those two towers in my mind and I look up and I know they are still there," said Krysztof Kossut. "My friends are there and those towers are still there in my memory."
The restaurant is a project by ROC United, or Restaurant Opportunities Centers.
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