Depends on what definition of “tallest” they’re using. At 110 stories, it is 22 stories taller than the Petronas (and 8 taller than the Empire State). The distance from Wacker Drive to the 110th floor is 1431 feet; to the roof, 1450 feet. There is yet to be a building that can match the distance to the highest floor or the roof.cite
You know, it never even occured to me that there might be different definitions of “tallest”.
Am I missing something here? Don’t you just measure from the highest point of the structure to the ground?
Fsck cultural victory. Space race is the ONLY victory that matters.
Because it’s the one with the coolest cut-scene. 
Mutual Protection Pact? Never trust a smiling Russian.
If you do that you’ll find that Petronas in Kuala Lumpur is tallest, but that’s because they use spires to get the extra height. Sears Tower has 110 stories, the Petronas Towers only have 88 each.
The standard should be the distance in a unit of measure (feet, meters or equine hands) to the top of the highest occupiable floor.
Spires shouldn’t count. That’s like measuring Danny DeVito to the top of his hat.
New York was my birthplace. I left the wondrous City one year ago, amidst the horror and the pain, to begin my life anew in the desert Southwest. While I gasp each morning at the sight of the ten thousand foot mountain peaks outside my window, and I hear the lonely call of the coyote at night, I will never forget my big city roots. Dear New York. My canyon home sometimes recalls the shadows and sunlight of Manhattan streets.
MY LOST CITY (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
“From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building and, just as it had been a tradition of mine to climb to the Plaza Roof to take leave of the beautiful city, extending as far as eyes could reach, so now I went to the roof of the last and most magnificent of towers. Then I understood — everything was explained: I had discovered the crowning error of the city, its Pandora’s box. Full of vaunting pride the New Yorker had climbed here and seen with dismay what he had never suspected, that the city was not the endless succession of canyons that he had supposed but that it had limits — from the tallest structure he saw for the first time that it faded out into the country on all sides, into an expanse of green and blue that alone was limitless. And with the awful realization that New York was a city after all and not a universe, the whole shining edifice that he had reared in his imagination came crashing to the ground.”
Blue? Green?
From what I’ve seen, Manhattan fades into Newark.
There are, if I recall correctly, three U.S. universities that predate the founding of the Republic. So, if that “venerable american university” was either Harvard, Yale, or William and Mary, the porter’s response isn’t quite the “zinger” it might have seemed.
Though, of course, they’ve got nothing on Oxford as far as antiquity is concerned.
Ah, New York, New York, the town so nice they named it twice.
Where else in the known universe can a drooling sod kicker from East Cow Flop, Iowa, buy a $3500 name brand wrist watch for $10, solid gold, on the sidewalk, out of a suit case, with a money back guarantee (if you bring it back). Such a deal. Such a city. Let’s seen you do that in Oxford of the sleeping spires!
Princeton was chartered as the College of New Jersey in 1746. I’m pretty sure there are a few others that pre-date 1776, too (Dartmouth? Columbia?), but I’m too lazy to look them up at the moment.
I think you need to imagine the view from the Empire State as it was 80 years ago.
That’s stupid; horses have hooves.
Needledick?
listen you fucking stuck up idiot, you have some fucking bizarre idea that America is perfect.
Despite what you might label me as, backpedalling nothwithstanding, I actually quite like your country. I love the music that comes from it, I love alot of the writers that come from there, and alot of the television. I am certainly not anti-American, no matter how comfortable knocking me might make you feel.
I urge you to realise that there is more to the world than America. It is not perfect. It is really good, but not perfect.
you have a history on this board of putting down other countries while proclaiming America’s brilliance, e.g. referring to Canada as “America jr.” or “America’s Hat”
May I cordially invite you to go suck a lemon, as perhaps it will shut your mouth for a while.
You know nothing. Your lack of intelligence is a disgrace to the fine education system Americans have worked hard to develop.
On Behalf of the rest of the world, may I extend a middle finger to your jingoistic, simplistic, idiotic brand of patriotism.
or, to cut a long story short…
Bite my fat one.
Are you sure you want her to bite it?
But what about the Irish curse?
wiggles pinky
Here’s a quarter, go buy a sense of humor.
heres a dime.
Buy a clue.
Perhaps it was ‘twice as old as settled america.’ I remember to zingerness, not the precise wording 
And Newark is an exceptional environment for blue algea, green algea, and even the bluegreen kinds. Also slime mold, lichen, and all of the multicolored anaerobic putrefaction organisms.
Oh, and totally BTW, scratch, Columbia University was founded as King’s College (by King George II) while he was still in charge of NYC.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. The truth is out.
But not out very far.