Joe Macken drives a truck for work, but two decades ago, he stumbled upon a very particular passion -- carving New York City buildings out of balsa wood. Before the days of Google Maps, the ...
"The Holiday Train Show" at the New York Botanical Garden, designed by Applied Imagination, adds the Whitney Museum to its ...
Joe Macken spent 21 years constructing a model of the city, including bridges, brownstones and both the twin towers and One World Trade Center. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Thursday. Today we’ll ...
The lions guarding the New York Public Library have okra seeds for eyes and wild meadow-grass manes. The Statue of Liberty wears a wheat-stalk necklace. Honeysuckle twigs form the walls of the Empire ...
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