What Is the Tallest Building In NYC?

Many people think of the One World Trade Center as the tallest building in New York City and in the country, however this is somewhat disputed as it depends on what you consider as part of building height. #shorts

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[drabberfrog]

Let's measure buildings by the highest occupied floor and towers by their highest point. Done. It simplifies everything so we don't have to debate this every time.

[kylewhitt]

"Let's stick a giant pole on the top to make it taller!"
"Poles and antenna don't count."
"Did I say pole, I meant 'architectural spire'"
"Oh, well in that case!"

[doodledangernoodle]

One World Trade Center really missed out on having the actual building be 1, 776 feet and the antenna bringing the total height to 1, 973 feet. A tribute to the year the original Twin Towers were completed.

[mewtwo.]

So if I have "spikey" hair, am I taller?

[Dango]

The tallest is whichever one I can comfortably go on top of and be above every other building in the city

[taranchenkoigor]

"Spire" is only a different name for Antenna. Imagine if hight of a human would be counted with a hat on.

[dannjrad]

Personally, I would've designed One World Trade without a spire and just make the roof height 1776 ft

[GalaxyFur]

The building that can get you up the highest is the Sears Tower. (Willis Tower) It's 103rd floor observation deck is 1, 353 ft above the streets of Chicago.

So what will matter to most people is what building can get me up the highest and offer the highest view of any building In North America. That's still to this day the Sears Tower.

The highest free standing structure in North America is the CN Tower.

The tallest Tower in North America of any kind is the 2, 063 ft KVLY-TV mast in North Dakota.

However the United States is home to more than 30 broadcast Towers that rise to a height of at least 2, 000 ft tall.

[Reconseal]

Its Basically like wearing one of those giant Abraham Lincoln hats and make yourself 6 feet but when your clearly under 5 feet!

[christopherbradford]

the roof height and highest occupied floor of one wtc are surpassed by central park tower, 432 park avenue, 111 57th street, and Chicago's Willis tower ( formerly and still commonly referred to as Sears tower). Tribune east tower in Chicago and 270 park avenue in midtown Manhattan will also have higher occupied floors and roofs upon their completion.

[fabio.]

I will add a drone connected to a cable and say my house is the tallest building in the city.

[sovietfp]

yeah, imagine being in the top floor of the "tallest building" and seeing the building next door above you.

[PersonManManManMan]

I think there should be like a formula calculating roof height and highest occupied floor to estimate the highest building, cuz spires like these are hilarious

[yooda_]

They made the anten so it can have 1776 feet

[cowerdnerddespacito]

I didn’t know the one World Trade Center was 1776 feet tall,
That’s cool

[drewh]

Well. more importantly is that both tower half empty, unoccupied.

[APerson-nigb]

Freedom tower is a slap in the face for what it tries to honor 😔

[vxydnxp]

It’s probably the old World trade Center, Empire State building, or the one World Trade Center

[Moakmeister]

They really limited themselves by making it have the same roof height as the original 1 WTC. It’s also much skinnier with fewer floors so it has like 2/3s the floor space as well.

[bigtonithegreatjamboni]

Fun fact: In 1981 they once stacked both of the twin towers on top of eachother to make a super trade center, people didn't like it because they were afraid of heights and the upper tower wobbled too much so they put it back to normal.