The 1,350-square-foot model is now on display at the Museum of the City of New York, where visitors can use binoculars to see ...

Christopher Petersen often describes what he does as “building memories.” Petersen, 63, lives in Colorado but grew up in Park Ridge, in a white house on Washington Street. That house has seen some ...

Reno may be “the biggest little city in the world,” but it's got some serious competition from the miniature New York City that hobbyist Joseph Macken built in his upstate New York basement over two ...

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 ...

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 East Side museum. Joe Macken in a corner of the laundry room where he ...