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 ...

Now in its 34th year, the festive model train show has added a wee Whitney Museum to its miniature metropolis. The Enid A. Haupt Conservatory model at "The Holiday Train Show" at the New York ...

The Museum of the City of New York will display a miniature New York built of balsa wood and Elmer’s glue. It has bridges, brownstones and One World Trade Center. By James Barron See more of our ...

Decades ago, as a child, Joe Macken visited the Queens Museum, where he encountered its iconic model of New York City made for the 1964 World Fair. "I'm going to build one of these myself one day," he ...