At the time of the September 11 Attacks , Cantor Fitzgerald 's offices occupied the 101-105th floors in the World Trade Center 's North Tower , just above where a hijacked plane hit the building . None of the employees who were in the Cantor offices that morning survived the attacks . In total , 658 of Cantor 's 960 employees died that day , including Lutnick 's brother Gary Lutnick . Lutnick himself would have been in the office as well that morning , but on September 11 he was taking his son Kyle to his first day of kindergarten
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