What businesses or organizations occupied the top floors of the WTC (those floors above where the planes hit)? Does anyone know?
the very top floors of the South tower were an observation deck visited by 80,000-100,000 people daily.
The very top floors of the North tower were a restaurant called Windows on the World.
I don’t know about the businesses above the top supporrt girdle.
Oh my lord, could the South Tower really accomodate that many people each day? How many people are on the deck at any given time?
I know that a brokerage firm called Kantor-Fitzgerald occupies several of the highest floors of WTC 1. I was once interviewed for a job there on the 104th floor, and I know it wasn’t their only one.
well, people don’t stay that long, and the deck was open fairly late till 9 or so, IIRC. I’d [WA]Guess that at any one time there were a couple thousand people a)In line b)riding express elevators up or down) c)on the glassed-in deck d)on the open air dedeck. I don’t know the “official capacity” though.
Morgan-Stanley had 25 floors. Don’t know where. The Port Authority was another major tenant.
An article on some of the occupants:
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter occuppied 1/10 of the leased space, including some upper floors. Blue Cross / Blue Shield was another large tenant.
Windows on the World was on the 106th floor. I have one of their wine books.
Washington Post has lists of tenants and floors:
Tower 1 (North): As mentioned above, Cantor-Fitzgerald had 101-105 in Tower 1. Marsh USA had floors 93-100.
Tower 2 (South): AON had 92, 99 and 100. Fiduciary Trust Company had 90 and 94-97.
Morgan Stanley had mid-levels in Tower 2: 43-46, 56, 59-74.
I just heard from a WTC official on the news that the observation deck received about 5,000 visitors per day. I knew there was no way it could have been as high as rmariamp suggested. From visiting there before, it seems the capacity at any given time is in the hundreds, at most.
We went to NYC in mid June and were told the views from the Empire State building was better.
So we went to the Empire State at night.
About 5pm the next day we took the subway from Battery Park (where you catch the ferry for Staten Island [which by the way is free and has the BEST views of NYC] and the Statue of Liberty.
The building is very much like the Sears Tower or John Hancock in that you go staight up very quickly.
In the Empire State you go up a few floors go up to 80th floor wait some more go on other elevators and then go up 6 more flights.
On the Observation Deck it is very big (similar to Hancock or Sear) and has Sabarro’s(sp?) Pizza, a couple other smallish resturants a coffee and ice cream shop. I want to say Two gift shops but I may be wrong.
We stayed till it got dark at 8:30pm to compare the night view and we NEVER saw more than 25 people there at a time. Most of the time it was like 10 and the elevator we rode up in was only 7 people and we came down as 2 people.
The cool thing was from the observation deck you can take an escalator OUTSIDE and walk around the building. The scary part is once you go up you had to walk all around the 4 sides of the building to get back down. Unlike the Empire State which is also outside you can quick run back in if you get scared.
You could see the next building easily (though not inside).
I don’t know if the day had anything to do with it we went on a Monday. The day before SUNDAY we had gone to the Empire State and it was JAMMED. We waited over an hour just to get INTO the building. It took us close to two hours from the time we waited in line till we got up. You can tell how much older that building is. The elevators are so small and slow in the Empire State.
We had to go thru a detector at the World Trade (which I don’t think we did at the Empire State)
AND they took everyone’s picture
I thought it was cause of the earlier attack but we discovered once we got up there they tried to sell us the photo.
Well, now you have a collector’s item…
[geez]
Wrong type of book. It’s a published book.
Today’s Wall Street Journal has a complete listing of all Tower tenants.
My company is a subsidiary of Marsh. The company sent out an e-mail this morning saying that 1,000 of 1,700 employees had phoned in. (My subsidiary had its own offices in the building, but on a lower floor, and all the employees got out).
Estimates say that up to 10,000 people were in each tower at one time.