Windows owner David Emil and executive chef Michael Lomonaco testified to Feinberg that their employees indeed had the potential to rise. If one is to believe that pot washers and grill cooks are fated to never rise above their near-minimum wages, what does that say about their right to the pursuit of happiness? It had become a must-see destination for out-of-town guests, a go-to special occasion spot for New Yorkers and a lifeline to hundreds and hundreds of working immigrants, some of whom, like Chimbo, were undocumented.įeinberg developed a formula of payment partly based on “economic loss”: how much income a person would have made over his or her lifetime, an assessment that is tied to one’s interpretation of some fundamental American principles. In 2001, Windows was the highest-grossing restaurant in the country. In the words of Guy Tozzoli, the director of the World Trade Center and its primary builder, Windows “turned the city of New York from looking at the Trade Center as some monster downtown to something that was theirs.” The restaurant helped transform antipathy toward the World Trade Center into acceptance, making the complex an essential part of the city’s identity. But the restaurant quickly moved from being a controversial confection atop a billion-dollar fiasco to being a beloved icon on top of the world’s most famous skyline. Windows on the World opened in 1976 at the top of a confounding building at a nadir in the city’s history.
As he drove away from their home, Soria got up and went to the window and said, “Goodbye, my love.” Normally, he would kiss his wife, still in bed, but not that morning. But he was like that: very orderly.Īt five in the morning on September 11th, Chimbo was up and he quietly left around five thirty. The day before, his wife teased him because he was already meticulously getting his clothes and bag ready. That August when Soria suffered a miscarriage, he took time off to care for her with plans to return to work on September 11th.
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Once he began working at Windows, he would demonstrate the skills of his trade to his wife and their son, Luis Eduardo, while walking in markets in Queens and showing them how to smell a melon to gauge its freshness.Ĭhimbo was promoted to a management position in 2001.
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