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Friday morning was a stunner in New York, allowing everyone to fully appreciate the majesty of engineering and the scale of a city even more than the symbolism as the spire was permanently installed and the building became the tallest in the Western hemisphere.
Construction workers will soon add the final piece of the 408-foot high spire atop the new skyscraper at One World Trade Center.
After reports of a fire at 1WTC, it appears to have been a false alarm, The Associated Press and others are reporting.
A decade and six months after the Twin Towers fell in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the World Trade Center site is once again home to New York's tallest building.
Today in videos: Al Franken gets emotional on the Senate floor, One World Trade Center rises before your eyes, and Jimmy Fallon auditions for Saturday Night Live.
Condé Nast is the first confirmed tenant at One World Trade Center
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