The Empire State Building is a 103-story skyscraper
located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, at the intersection of Fifth
Avenue and West 34th Street. It has a roof height of 1,250 feet, and with its antenna
spire included, it stands a total of 1,454 feet high. Its name is derived from the nickname
for New York, the Empire State. It stood as the world's tallest building for
nearly 40 years, from its completion in early 1931 until the topping out of the
original World Trade Center's North Tower in late 1970. Following the September 11 attacks in 2001,
the Empire State Building was again the tallest building in New York, until One
World Trade Center reached a greater height on April 30, 2012. The Empire State
Building is currently the fourth-tallest completed skyscraper in the United
States (after the One World Trade Center, the Willis Tower and Trump
International Hotel and Tower, both in Chicago), and the 23rd-tallest in the world.
It is also the fifth-tallest freestanding structure in the Americas. Source
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