From the New York Post, July 21:
Is this NYC’s next top model?
Joe Macken has spent the past 21 years painstakingly erecting an intricate 3D replica of New York City by hand — using nothing but balsa wood, Elmer’s glue and a whole lot of ingenuity.
The finished product, unveiled recently in a viral TikTok video, features nearly a million buildings spanning all five boroughs — including Staten Island, and even parts of New Jersey, Westchester and Long Island.
“It was quite the process. I just kept building and building and building,” truck driver Macken, 63, told The Post of his sprawling pet project. “I never thought in a million years I would ever get done with the whole, entire thing.”
At 30 feet wide and 50 feet long, the diorama is so gargantuan that he keeps it in a storage unit near his house in Clifton Park, about 20 miles north of Albany....
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