For those skimming the surface of this article as I almost did:

The pictures in the article, impressive enough, are just the Manhattan portions of his model. He has in fact modelled all of New York!

> Macken said it took him about 10 years to build Manhattan alone and 11 years for the rest of the boroughs.

The full, absolutely huge, model can be seen on his TikTok (linked at the end of the article): https://www.tiktok.com/@balsastyrofoam300/video/754180447598...

Reminds me of the "Atomic Trucker" https://www.vice.com/en/article/atomic-trucker-reverse-engin...

Wow so it's down to the building level? I wonder how he did those and how accurate they are. Dimensions seems right on.

Makes me think of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche,_New_York

Is there a miniature version of this guy in the model, with a miniature version of the miniature city?

The article says there are 1 million buildings in NYC?

That seems high ... only 10 people per building?