The
Empire State Building is a 102-story
skyscraper located in
Midtown Manhattan,
New York City, on
Fifth Avenue between West
33rd and
34th Streets. It has a roof height of 1,250 feet (381 m), and with its
antenna spire included, it stands a total of high. Its name is derived from the
nickname for
New York, the
Empire State. It stood as the
world's tallest building for nearly 40 years, from its completion in early 1931 until the
topping out of the original
World Trade Center's North Tower in late 1970. Following the
September 11 attacks in 2001, the Empire State Building was again the tallest building in New York, until
One World Trade Center reached a greater height in April 2012. The Empire State Building is currently the
fifth-tallest completed skyscraper in the United States and the
29th-tallest in the world. It is also the
fifth-tallest freestanding structure in the Americas. When measured by
pinnacle height, it is the fourth-tallest building in the United States.