Īt 1,250 feet (381 m), the 102-story Empire State Building in Midtown Manhattan, which was finished in 1931, stood as the tallest building in the world from its completion until 1970, when construction on the 1,368-foot (417 m) North Tower of the original World Trade Center surpassed it. The fifth-tallest is 432 Park Avenue at 1,397 feet (426 m). At 1,401 feet (427 m), it is the tallest office building in Midtown. Rising to 1,428 feet (435 m), it is the world's most slender skyscraper. The third-tallest completed building in the city is 111 West 57th Street. It has the highest roof of any building outside Asia, and is the tallest residential building in the world. At 1,550 feet (472 m), Central Park Tower is the second-tallest completed building in the city. The 104-story skyscraper also stands as the tallest building in the United States, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, and the seventh-tallest building in the world. The tallest building in New York is One World Trade Center, which rises 1,776 feet (541 m). New York City, the most populous city in the United States, is home to over 7,000 completed high-rise buildings of at least 115 feet (35 m), of which at least 95 are taller than 650 feet (198 m). Lower Manhattan, viewed from Jersey City, New Jersey with the World Trade Center complex in the middle.
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