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No, it is the tallest residential building in Manhattan, unless you want to redefine how buildings are measured.

Not sure why I was downvoted for pointing out that it isn't the tallest building in NYC. The tallest building in NYC is 1 WTC, which is almost 400' taller than this building, and is also the tallest building in the Western hemisphere.

It's reasonable to believe that "the building where you can ascend the furthest" is taller than "the building which would first puncture a descending dirigible".

The formal definition of "Height to Architectural Top" from the CTBUH requires 5 footnotes and a committee to decide whether the top features of a building are "architectural" or not.

And who put them in charge, anyway?

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