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 of balsa wood.
He decided on a miniature replica of the RCA Building in New York City’s Rockefeller Center. He enjoyed the process so much that the next day, he built another building. And then he just kept going.
He says there was never a point that he felt he had gone too far. Not even when he built all of Rockefeller Center, all of Midtown, all of Manhattan, then all of New York City…