One World Trade Center: One World Trade Center becomes New York's tallest skyscraper

More than a decade after terrorists toppled the original World Trade Center towers, workers at the site installed a steel beam Monday that brings the height of the structure to 1250 feet. The steel skeleton of One World Trade now stands slightly higherThe placement of a column of the 100th floor brought the colossal new steel structure of One World Trade Center tower to a height of 1271 feet -- surpassing the frame of the Empire State Building, which is currently New York's tallest

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