AP Photos: NYC’s tallest buildings through history

NEW YORK (AP) — When it comes to New York’s sky­scrap­ers, who’s king of the hill and top of the heap?

For now, it’s the Empire State Building.

But all that changes Mon­day, when One World Trade Cen­ter — being built to replace the twin tow­ers destroyed on 9/11 — gets steel columns to make its unfin­ished frame­work a lit­tle higher than the Empire State’s 1,250-foot obser­va­tion deck.

Of course, if you count the Empire State’s needle-like antenna, it’s actu­ally 1,454 feet, but many purists don’t include such add-ons.

Here’s a list of New York’s tallest sky­scrap­ers through the years:

1909–13: Met­ro­pol­i­tan Life Tower

1913–30: Wool­worth Building

1930: Bank of Man­hat­tan Trust Build­ing (now called the Trump Building)

1930–31: Chrysler Building

1931–1972: Empire State Building

1972–2001: One World Trade Center

2001-present: Empire State Building

Source: AP

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