Cantor Fitzgerald L.P. announced Wednesday it was making grief counseling services available for surviving employees and the families of employees, including those of affiliates eSpeed and TradeSpark, who had been working on floors 101 to 105 of the World Trade Center.

A spokesman said it was too soon to say how many of Cantor’s approximately 1,000 employees located in the Trade Center had survived the towers’ collapse as the result of a terrorist attack Tuesday. He said less than 10 of the employees who had been employed there were working with TradeSpark, the electronic energy trading platform which has set out to rival EnronOnline and Intercontinental Exchange. Asked if the TradeSpark operation would be able to continue, the spokesman pointed out that the unit also has an office and employees in Houston, and put off further questions.

Cantor encouraged all employees, extended families and friends to gather at the Pierre Hotel at 2 East 61st in Manhattan for counseling and crisis intervention and to share feelings in a safe environment. The facility opened Wednesday afternoon and will be open from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. Thursday and Friday. Priests, rabbis and grief counselors will be on hand to offer support.

TradeSpark is operated by eSpeed, which had its headquarters on the 103 floor of the Trade Center. eSpeed has 493 employees and offices in Europe, Asia and Canada as well as the United States. Its chairman, Howard Lutnick, also is chairman of Cantor Fitzgerald financial services firm.

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