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FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2001, file photo, the twin towers of the World Trade Center burn behind the Empire State Building in New York. The twin towers stood as New York’s tallest from 1972 until the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, when two planes cr Marty Lederhandler, Associated Press
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FILE - This Nov. 7, 1930, file photo, shows New York's skyline from the harbor. The Governor's Island Ferry is at right. On Monday, April 30, 2012, One World Trade Center _ being built to replace the twin towers destroyed on 9/11 _ will get steel column File, Associated Press
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FILE - This Sept. 15, 1997, file photo, shows the Chrysler Building, right center, and The Empire State Building, left center, in New York. The Chrysler Building was New York's tallest from 1930-31, until the completion of the Empire State Building. Richard Drew, File, Associated Press
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FILE- In this April 17, 2012, file photo, One World Trade Center, now up to 100 floors, rises above the Manhattan skyline in New York. On Monday, April 30, One World Trade Center _ being built to replace the twin towers destroyed on 9/11 _ gets steel col Mark Lennihan, Associated Press
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FILE - This Aug. 30, 2011, file photo, shows the Empire State Building in an aerial view of the Manhattan skyline in New York. The Empire State building was New York's tallest from 1931-1972, until the completion of the World Trade Center. It became the t Mark Lennihan, File, Associated Press
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FILE - This 1972, file photo, shows the World Trade Center in New York. The twin towers stood as New York's tallest until the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, when two planes crashed into the World Trade Center causing the twin 110-story towers to col File, Associated Press
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FILE - This May 3, 2011, file photo, shows the Woolworth building in New York. The Woolworth Building was New York's tallest from 1913-30, until the completion of the Bank of Manhattan Trust Building (now called the Trump Building). Mary Altaffer, File, Associated Press

By Associated Press

NEW YORK — 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

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1931-1972: Empire State Building

1972-2001: One World Trade Center

2001-present: Empire State Building

Source: AP

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