Grondahl: Local man’s scale model of New York City wows Manhattan crowds

As a child, Joe Macken vowed to build a scale-model replica of New York City. Decades later, it’s being displayed in an Upper ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Truck Driver Spent 20 Years Making This Astonishing Scale Model of Every Single Building in New York City

In 2004, truck driver Joe Macken created a miniature replica of New York City’s 30 Rockefeller Plaza out of balsa wood. Although he had intended to stop there, he realized he was hooked. “Then the ...
CBS News

Truck driver spends decades carving a scale model masterpiece of New York City

Clifton Park, New York — In the spring of 2004, a truck driver named Joe Macken descended his basement stairs in Clifton Park, New York, with a simple idea: to see if he could build something cool out ...
The New York Times

The Work of Robert Moses? No, It’s Joe Macken.

A delivery truck driver from Queens created a scale model of New York City. After 10 million views on TikTok, his mini Gotham has moved to Museum Mile. By John Freeman Gill The parachute jump, a ...