'Freedom Tower' becomes tallest in New York
 

01-05-12 10:36 AM

One World Trade Center, the monolith being built to replace the twin towers destroyed in the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, claimed the title of New York City's tallest skyscraper yesterday, as workers erected steel columns that made its unfinished skeleton a little over 1,250 feet (381 meters) high, just enough to peek over the roof of the observation deck on the Empire State Building.

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