"I knew every block," he told CBS New York ."
"the model represents something museums don't often get to share: a deeply personal New York."
" He Built This City: Joe Macken's Model ,"
Joe Macken, a Queens-born truck driver, created a 50-by-30-foot scale model of New York City across 350 panels over more than two decades. He began in 2004 in Clifton Park using an X-Acto knife, balsa wood, Styrofoam and Elmer's glue, carving nearly a million tiny buildings to scale. Every inch in the model represents 160 feet, making the Empire State Building just under eight inches tall. Macken started with Rockefeller Center and worked block by block, relying on personal memory for neighborhoods like Middle Village. The model went viral on TikTok and will debut at the Museum of the City of New York.
Read at Time Out New York
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