The new One World Trade Center began construction in 2006 in April 2012 it surpassed the Empire State Building to become the city's tallest. If the Twin Towers were still standing today, they would be sixth and seventh on the list, respectively, and the list would exclude the new One World Trade Center, which would not have been built otherwise. The Twin Towers remained the tallest buildings in New York City until they were destroyed in 2001 during the September 11 attacks, leaving the Empire State Building again as the city's tallest building. The North Tower (the original One World Trade Center), along with its twin the South Tower (the first Two World Trade Center), which was six feet shorter, held this title only briefly as they were both surpassed by construction of the 110-story Willis Tower (then, and still colloquially, known as the Sears Tower) in Chicago in 1973. It is the eighth-tallest building in the United States, and rises to a pinnacle of 1,454 feet (443 m) including its antenna. Īt 1,250 feet (381 m), the 102-story Empire State Building in Midtown Manhattan, which was finished in 1931, stood as the tallest building in the world from its completion until 1970, when construction on the 1,368-foot (417 m) North Tower of the original World Trade Center surpassed it. The fifth-tallest is 432 Park Avenue at 1,397 feet (426 m). At 1,401 feet (427 m), it is the tallest office building in Midtown. Rising to 1,428 feet (435 m), it is the world's most slender skyscraper. The third-tallest completed building in the city is 111 West 57th Street.

It has the highest roof of any building outside Asia, and is the tallest residential building in the world. At 1,550 feet (472 m), Central Park Tower is the second-tallest completed building in the city. The 104-story skyscraper also stands as the tallest building in the United States, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, and the seventh-tallest building in the world. The tallest building in New York is One World Trade Center, which rises 1,776 feet (541 m). New York City, the most populous city in the United States, is home to over 7,000 completed high-rise buildings of at least 115 feet (35 m), of which at least 95 are taller than 650 feet (198 m). Lower Manhattan, viewed from Jersey City, New Jersey with the World Trade Center complex in the middle.

City skyscraper