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The final sections of a 125-metre spire were hoisted to the top of One World Trade Centre on Thursday, signalling a close to the saga between the New York development team and a Quebec steel manufacturer that once threatened to bring the whole operation to a halt.

The last two pieces of the spire, draped in the American flag, were hauled up more than 410 metres in what organizers called “a historic milestone.”

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Thursday also marked the two-year anniversary of Osama Bin Laden’s death at the hands of U.S. Navy Seals.

The spire — comprised of 18 pieces that will provide the necessary footage to make One World Trade Centre the tallest tower in the western hemisphere — was shipped to a lower Manhattan pier from Quebec in November, following a resolution between the French-Canadian steel manufacturer and the Port Authority.

In October 2012, the Port Authority responsible for constructing the tower filed a lawsuit against ADF Group Inc. with the New York Supreme Court. In the lawsuit, Terrebonne, Que., manufacturer is accused of holding the spire “ransom.”