World Trade Center tops NYC
■ One World Trade Center, being built on the site of the fallen twin towers, surpassed the Empire State Building yesterday as the tallest skyscraper in New York. Construction started six years ago on the new World Trade Center and now the skyscraper, formerly called the Freedom Tower, surpasses the top floor of the Empire State Building. One World Trade Center will stand at 1,776 feet to the tip of its antenna when it is completed, possibly by late 2013. The Empire State Building, built in 1931, was the city’s tallest at a height of 1,545 feet to the tip of its broadcast antenna until 1972, when it was overtaken by the original World Trade Center towers. It then regained the title after the September 11, 2001, attacks, which destroyed the complex.