New York — Reporters watch a column being lifted to the top of One World Trade Center, which made the building, still under construction, taller than the Empire State Building, reclaiming the honor as New York City's tallest skyscraper.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times
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New York — A view of the Empire State Building from One World Trade Center.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times
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New York — The sun reflects on a building at the World Trade Center site Monday.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Julio Cortez / Associated Press
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New York — An ironworker walks a steel beam at the new World Trade Center building on March 23.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Mark Lennihan / Associated Press
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New York — The new World Trade Center building towers above the Lower Manhattan skyline and Hudson River on March 26.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Mark Lennihan / Associated Press
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New York — The Empire State Building, center, and the new World Trade Center building, rear right.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Richard Drew / Associated Press
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New York — An ironworker connects a steel plate to a column at the new World Trade Center building in December 2010.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Mark Lennihan / Associated Press
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New York — Smoke billows from the twin towers of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, with the Empire State Building in the foreground.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Marty Lederhandler / Associated Press
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New York — The twin towers of the World Trade Center in 1972. The building had their ceremonial opening in 1973.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: AP / Associated Press
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New York — This May 1973 photo released by the U.S. National Archives shows ongoing urban development and construction on lower Manhattan's West Side, just north of the World Trade Center, right. The image was taken for the then-new Environmental Protection Agency's "Documerica" program, 1972-1977, to document subjects of environmental concern.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Wil Blanche / U.S. National Archives
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