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NEIL D. LEVIN, FORMER HEAD OF PORT AUTHORITY, LAID TO REST

Mr. Levin was at a table alone at the Windows on the World restaurant.
Levin had been preparing to meet with Fred V. Morrone, the Port Authority’s police superintendent. Morrone was last seen heading up the stairs in a rescue effort. Both men perished when the building collapsed. In all, the Port Authority lost 74 employees, including 14 police officers involved in the rescue. (Footnote: BRAVERYATTHE WTC )

It a little fishy to me that Morrone is called a "guest" in the account below.

The most comprehensive account I have found is:

Sitting by himself at a window table overlooking the Statue of Liberty was a relative newcomer, Neil D Levin, executive director of the Port Authority. He had never joined them for breakfast before. But his secretary requested a table days earlier and now he sat waiting for a banker friend.
Every minute or so a waiter, Jan Maciejewski, swept through the room refilling coffee cups and taking orders, Nestor recalls. Maciejewski was one of several restaurant workers on the 107th floor. Most of the 72 Windows employees were on the 106th floor, where Risk Waters Group was holding a conference on information technology. Already 87 people had arrived, including top executives from Merrill Lynch and UBS Warburg. Many were enjoying coffee and sliced smoked salmon in the restaurant's ballroom. Some exhibitors were already tending to their booths, set up in the Horizon Suite just across the hallway.
A picture taken that morning showed two exhibitors, Peter Alderman and William Kelly, salesmen for Bloomberg LP, chatting with a colleague beside a table filled with a multi-screened computer display. Stuart Lee and Garth Feeney, two vice-presidents of Data Synapse, ran displays of their company's software.
In the lobby, 107 floors below, an assistant to Levin waited for his breakfast guest. But when the guest arrived, the two luckily boarded the wrong elevator, so they had to return to the lobby to wait for another one.
Upstairs, Levin read his newspaper, Nestor recalled. He and Tierney were a little curious to see whom Levin, their boss, was meeting for breakfast. But Nestor had a meeting downstairs, so they headed for the elevators, stopping at Levin's table to say goodbye. Behind them came Thompson and Wharton. Nestor held the elevator, so they hopped in quickly. The doors closed and the last people ever to leave Windows on the World began their descent. It was 8.44 am.
(Footnote: The Observer | Special reports | 9/11: Distant voices, still lives ...)

CBS News | Final Words From 9/11 Victims | August 28, 2003 21:52:55

Honoring The Port Authority (link with video)

Neil Levin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Newsday.com - Victims Search

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