A mock-up of One World Trade as seen from Battery Park.

One World Trade Center has some shoes to fill.  Its predecessors, the Twin Towers that were felled on 9/11 and killed 3000 people, were two of the tallest buildings in the world and had supplanted the historic Empire State Building as the tallest structures in New York City before the terrorist attacks that felled them.  Well, the Empire State Building is back to number two as the former Freedom Tower, AKA One World Trade Center, is now New York’s tallest building and it’s not even complete!

“The new World Trade Center is more than just a skyscraper: it is a symbol of the enduring spirit of the City and State of New York, representing our commitment to rebuilding stronger than before,” said New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Granted, the milestone is a technicality, but it will become a fact by the time the building rises to its full 1776-foot height in late 2013.  Construction workers raised a beam at the 1270-foot mark in One World Trade’s construction, which makes that building’s height just slightly taller than the top floor observation deck of the Empire State Building, which is 1250 feet up.  When you factor in the antenna on the top, the Empire State Building stands 1545 feet tall.  The North Tower of the old Twin Towers was 1727 feet tall.

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