The 408-foot spire at the top of One World Trade Center is seen from lower Manhattan, Friday, May 10, 2013. The tall, heavy spire was fully installed Friday, bringing One World Trade Center to its symbolic height of 1,776 feet. Photo: Mary Altaffer, AP
The 408-foot spire was set into place at 1 World Trade Center on Friday, raising the building to its full height.
One World Trade Center hit a milestone today as construction crews set the 408-foot spire on top of the building. Newspapers are calling it a historic moment for the project, as it brings the structure's height to a symbolic 1,776 feet. That would make
The new trade center, set to open for business next year, is one of several mammoth office buildings being constructed at the site where al-Qaida terrorists flew jetliners into the twin World Trade Center buildings on September 11, 2001, collapsing the
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