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A truck driver built a NYC model from over 800,000 pieces for fun โ€” now it's a museum exhibit.

A truck driver built a NYC model from over 800,000 pieces for fun โ€” now it's a museum exhibit.

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September 18th, 2026

A truck driver built a NYC model from over 800,000 pieces for fun โ€” now it's a museum exhibit.

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For more than two decades, Joe Macken, who has worked as a truck driver, has devoted his spare time to constructing an enormous scale model of his hometown, New York City, using balsa wood and foam board as materials.

20๋…„์ด ๋„˜๋Š” ์„ธ์›” ๋™์•ˆ ํŠธ๋Ÿญ ์šด์ „์‚ฌ๋กœ ์ผํ•ด ์˜จ ์กฐ ๋งค์ผ„์€ ์—ฌ๊ฐ€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ํ• ์• ํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฐœ์‚ฌ๋‚˜๋ฌด์™€ ํผ๋ณด๋“œ๋ฅผ ์žฌ๋ฃŒ๋กœ ๊ณ ํ–ฅ์ธ ๋‰ด์š•์‹œ์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ถ•์†Œ ๋ชจํ˜•์„ ์ œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋ชฐ๋‘ํ•ด ์™”๋‹ค.

By the time he had finished it, his daughter had persuaded him to show off this vast basement creation, made up of more than 800,000 structures, on TikTok.

๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ์™„์„ฑํ–ˆ์„ ๋ฌด๋ ต, ๊ทธ์˜ ๋”ธ์€ 80๋งŒ ๊ฐœ๊ฐ€ ๋„˜๋Š” ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฌผ๋กœ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ง„ ์ด ๊ด‘ํ™œํ•œ ์ง€ํ•˜์‹ค ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์„ ํ‹ฑํ†ก์— ์ž๋ž‘ํ•˜๋„๋ก ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์„ค๋“ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The video clip went viral almost instantly.

๊ทธ ๋น„๋””์˜ค ํด๋ฆฝ์€ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์ฆ‰๊ฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ž…์†Œ๋ฌธ์„ ํƒ”๋‹ค.

Macken's model is currently on display at the Museum of the City of New York, which reached out to him after noticing that his TikTok video had amassed over 10 million views in just one week.

๋งค์ผ„์˜ ๋ชจํ˜•์€ ํ˜„์žฌ ๋‰ด์š•์‹œ ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€์— ์ „์‹œ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€ ์ธก์€ ๊ทธ์˜ ํ‹ฑํ†ก ๋น„๋””์˜ค๊ฐ€ ๋ถˆ๊ณผ ์ผ์ฃผ์ผ ๋งŒ์— 1,000๋งŒ ํšŒ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ์กฐํšŒ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ทธ์—๊ฒŒ ์—ฐ๋ฝ์„ ์ทจํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The exhibition, titled "He Built This City," opened in February on Manhattan's Museum Mile near Central Park and runs through October 12.

"๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ์ด ๋„์‹œ๋ฅผ ์ง€์—ˆ๋‹ค"๋ผ๋Š” ์ œ๋ชฉ์˜ ์ด ์ „์‹œ๋Š” 2์›”์— ๋งจํ•ดํŠผ์˜ ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ, ์„ผํŠธ๋Ÿด ํŒŒํฌ ์ธ๊ทผ์—์„œ ๊ฐœ๋ง‰ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, 10์›” 12์ผ๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ณ„์†๋œ๋‹ค.

"The process of making it is so enjoyable in itself that I have never seriously thought about finishing it," he remarked during a recent visit to the exhibition.

โ€œ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณผ์ • ์ž์ฒด๊ฐ€ ์ง€๊ทนํžˆ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์›Œ, ์ด๋ฅผ ์™„์„ฑํ•˜๋Š” ์ผ์— ๊ด€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์ง„์ง€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ•ด ๋ณธ ์ ์ด ์—†๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ตœ๊ทผ ์ „์‹œํšŒ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ์—์„œ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Elizabeth Sherman, the museum's chief curator, remarked that this model is a rare piece that captivates both social media followers and traditional museum visitors alike.

๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€์˜ ์ˆ˜์„ ํ๋ ˆ์ดํ„ฐ์ธ ์—˜๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฒ ์Šค ์…”๋จผ์€ ์ด ๋ชจํ˜•์ด ์†Œ์…œ ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด ํŒ”๋กœ์›Œ์™€ ์ „ํ†ต์ ์ธ ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€ ๊ด€๋žŒ๊ฐ ๋ชจ๋‘์˜ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์„ ๋„๋Š” ๋ณด๊ธฐ ๋“œ๋ฌธ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"I think people always want to embrace this entire city โ€” this city that is unknowable and that we cannot even fully grasp.

โ€œ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์–ธ์ œ๋‚˜ ์ด ๋„์‹œ ์ „์ฒด๋ฅผ, ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๊ณ  ์˜จ์ „ํžˆ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•  ์ˆ˜์กฐ์ฐจ ์—†๋Š” ์ด ๋„์‹œ๋ฅผ ํ’ˆ์— ์•ˆ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•œ๋‹ค.

And that is precisely the way we look at this city in a bird's-eye view," she said.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์กฐ๊ฐ๋„์—์„œ ์ด ๋„์‹œ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"These days, we hardly ever reach out to everyone in that way.

โ€œ์š”์ฆ˜ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์—๊ฒŒ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ผ์„ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค.

We like the kind of energy that it stirs up."

์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ถˆ๋Ÿฌ์ผ์œผํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€๋ฅผ ์ข‹์•„ํ•œ๋‹ค.โ€

Across more than 300 large foam boards that interlock like puzzle pieces, all five boroughs and parts of the New Jersey and Long Island suburbs are laid out in street-level detail.

๋‹ค์„ฏ ๊ฐœ ์ž์น˜๊ตฌ ์ „์—ญ๊ณผ ๋‰ด์ €์ง€ ๋ฐ ๋กฑ์•„์ผ๋žœ๋“œ ๊ต์™ธ ์ผ๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ํผ์ฆ ์กฐ๊ฐ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์„œ๋กœ ๋งž๋ฌผ๋ฆฐ 300๊ฐœ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ๋Œ€ํ˜• ํผ๋ณด๋“œ์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ์„ธ๋ถ€ ๋ฌ˜์‚ฌ๋กœ ํŽผ์ณ์ ธ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

The entire model measures 50 feet (15 meters) long and nearly 30 feet (9 meters) wide, with each inch of the model representing about 160 feet (49 meters).

์ „์ฒด ๋ชจํ˜•์€ ๊ธธ์ด 50ํ”ผํŠธ(15๋ฏธํ„ฐ), ๋„ˆ๋น„ ๊ฑฐ์˜ 30ํ”ผํŠธ(9๋ฏธํ„ฐ)์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋ชจํ˜•์˜ ๊ฐ ์ธ์น˜๋Š” ์•ฝ 160ํ”ผํŠธ(49๋ฏธํ„ฐ)๋ฅผ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ธ๋‹ค.

These more than 800,000 structures were mostly crafted from lightweight balsa wood, and their range extends from Manhattan's sky-piercing skyscrapers to modest single-family homes in Queens, and even to landmarks such as the Statue of Liberty, Yankee Stadium, and the Brooklyn Bridge.

80๋งŒ ๊ฐœ๊ฐ€ ๋„˜๋Š” ์ด๋“ค ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฌผ์€ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ๊ฐ€๋ฒผ์šด ๋ฐœ์‚ฌ๋‚˜๋ฌด๋กœ ์ œ์ž‘๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ ๋ฒ”์œ„๋Š” ๋งจํ•ดํŠผ์˜ ํ•˜๋Š˜์„ ์ฐŒ๋ฅด๋Š” ๋งˆ์ฒœ๋ฃจ์—์„œ ํ€ธ์ฆˆ์˜ ์†Œ๋ฐ•ํ•œ ๋‹จ๋… ์ฃผํƒ์— ์ด๋ฅด๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€, ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€ ์ž์œ ์˜ ์—ฌ์‹ ์ƒ, ์–‘ํ‚ค ์Šคํƒ€๋””์›€, ๋ธŒ๋ฃจํด๋ฆฐ ๋ธŒ๋ฆฌ์ง€์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ช…์†Œ๋“ค์—๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ฏธ์นœ๋‹ค.

Macken says the inspiration for this model dates back to an elementary school field trip to the Queens Museum to see the Panorama of the City of New York, the famous scale model built for the 1964โ€“1965 World's Fair.

๋งค์ผ„์€ ์ด ๋ชจํ˜•์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์˜๊ฐ์ด, 1964-1965๋…„ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ๋ฐ•๋žŒํšŒ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ œ์ž‘๋œ ์œ ๋ช…ํ•œ ์ถ•์†Œ ๋ชจํ˜•์ธ ๋‰ด์š•์‹œ ํŒŒ๋…ธ๋ผ๋งˆ๋ฅผ ๊ด€๋žŒํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ํ€ธ์ฆˆ ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€์œผ๋กœ ์ดˆ๋“ฑํ•™๊ต ๊ฒฌํ•™์„ ๊ฐ”๋˜ ๋•Œ๋กœ ๊ฑฐ์Šฌ๋Ÿฌ ์˜ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ„๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค.

This model even featured a helicopter-style aerial gondola ride.

์ด ๋ชจํ˜•์€ ํ—ฌ๋ฆฌ์ฝฅํ„ฐ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ์˜ ๊ณต์ค‘ ๊ณค๋Œ๋ผ ํƒ‘์Šน ์‹œ์„ค๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ฐ–์ถ”๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

However, it was not until he entered his forties that he, a native of Queens, finally began to actually build it.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ 40๋Œ€์— ์ ‘์–ด๋“ค๊ณ  ๋‚˜์„œ์•ผ, ํ€ธ์ฆˆ ์ถœ์‹ ์ธ ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋น„๋กœ์†Œ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

At that time, Macken and his young family had just finished moving from Long Island to the Albany area in upstate New York.

๊ทธ ๋‹น์‹œ ๋งค์ผ„๊ณผ ๊ทธ์˜ ์–ด๋ฆฐ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์€ ๋กฑ์•„์ผ๋žœ๋“œ์—์„œ ๋‰ด์š•์ฃผ ๋ถ๋ถ€์˜ ์˜ฌ๋ฒ„๋‹ˆ ์ง€์—ญ์œผ๋กœ ๋ง‰ ์ด์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์นœ ์ƒํƒœ์˜€๋‹ค.

"Perhaps I was unconsciously missing New York," he said.

โ€œ์•„๋งˆ๋„ ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ฌด์˜์‹์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‰ด์š•์„ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์›Œํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋˜ ๋“ฏํ•˜๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Using basic materials readily available at hobby shops, McCann set to work, beginning with Rockefeller Center and its iconic main tower, "30 Rock."

๋งค์ผ„์€ ์ทจ๋ฏธ ์ƒ์ ์—์„œ ์†์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ๊ตฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ์žฌ๋ฃŒ๋“ค์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ, ๋กํŽ ๋Ÿฌ ์„ผํ„ฐ์™€ ๊ทธ ์ƒ์ง•์ ์ธ ๋ฉ”์ธ ํƒ€์›Œ์ธ โ€œ30 Rockโ€์„ ์‹œ์ž‘์œผ๋กœ ์ž‘์—…์— ์ฐฉ์ˆ˜ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

From that point on, he built Midtown Manhattan over a process spanning roughly ten years, and the Empire State Building and its ornate Art Deco spire proved to be the most difficult part.

๊ทธ๋•Œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๊ทธ๋Š” ์•ฝ 10๋…„์— ๊ฑธ์นœ ๊ณผ์ •์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋ฏธ๋“œํƒ€์šด ๋งจํ•ดํŠผ์„ ๊ฑด์„คํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์— ํŒŒ์ด์–ด ์Šคํ…Œ์ดํŠธ ๋นŒ๋”ฉ๊ณผ ํ™”๋ คํ•œ ์•„๋ฅด๋ฐ์ฝ” ์ฒจํƒ‘์ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์–ด๋ ค์šด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐํ˜€์กŒ๋‹ค.

"I wanted to bring it to fruition flawlessly," Macken said.

โ€œ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ์™„๋ฒฝํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ตฌํ˜„ํ•ด ๋‚ด๊ณ ์ž ํ–ˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งค์ผ„์€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"Because people are going to witness it."

โ€œ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ชฉ๊ฒฉํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋  ํ…Œ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ.โ€

Macken had no background whatsoever in model making, architecture, or design.

๋งค์ผ„์€ ๋ชจํ˜• ์ œ์ž‘, ๊ฑด์ถ• ๋˜๋Š” ๋””์ž์ธ ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ ์–ด๋– ํ•œ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ๋„ ๊ฐ–์ถ”์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

He jokingly confides that his childhood experience of assembling Lego and Lincoln Logs is the closest thing he has to a relevant rรฉsumรฉ.

๊ทธ๋Š” ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์‹œ์ ˆ ๋ ˆ๊ณ ์™€ ๋ง์ปจ ๋กœ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์กฐ๋ฆฝํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ด ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ทผ์ ‘ํ•œ ์ด๋ ฅ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋†๋‹ด ์„ž์–ด ํ„ธ์–ด๋†“๋Š”๋‹ค.

Nevertheless, as he repeated the work, Macken transformed into a faster and more efficient person.

๊ทธ๋Ÿผ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์ž‘์—…์„ ๊ฑฐ๋“ญํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋งค์ผ„์€ ๋”์šฑ ์‹ ์†ํ•˜๊ณ  ํšจ์œจ์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณ€ํ™”ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"If I had known in advance how much I would come to enjoy it, I would have started twenty years earlier," he said.

โ€œ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ทธํ† ๋ก ์ฆ๊ธฐ๊ฒŒ ๋  ์ค„ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ์•Œ์•˜๋”๋ผ๋ฉด, ์ง„์ž‘ 20๋…„์ด๋‚˜ ์•ž๋‹น๊ฒจ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์„ ํ…๋ฐโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"One of the buildings that took several hours when I first started, I can now put together even half asleep."

โ€œ์ฒ˜์Œ ์ฐฉ์ˆ˜ํ–ˆ์„ ๋‹น์‹œ์—๋Š” ๋ช‡ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์†Œ์š”๋˜๋˜ ๊ฑด๋ฌผ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋ฅผ ์ด์ œ๋Š” ์ž ๊ฒฐ์—๋„ ์ง€์–ด๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.โ€

Macken reveals that he devoted nearly all of his free time to model making, gathering materials whenever he traveled to the New Jersey shore with his family in the summer or whenever he had spare time while driving a bus on weekends.

๋งค์ผ„์€ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ์—ฌ๊ฐ€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋ชจํ˜• ์ œ์ž‘์— ํ• ์• ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํžˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๊ทธ๋Š” ์—ฌ๋ฆ„์ฒ  ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋‰ด์ €์ง€ ํ•ด์•ˆ์œผ๋กœ ์—ฌํ–‰์„ ๋– ๋‚  ๋•Œ๋‚˜ ์ฃผ๋ง์— ๋ฒ„์Šค๋ฅผ ์šด์ „ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์—ฌ์œ ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์„ ๋•Œ ์žฌ๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ์ฑ™๊ฒผ๋‹ค.

"It was simply something I couldn't prevent," he said.

โ€œ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋‹จ์ง€ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์ €์ง€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†์—ˆ๋˜ ์ผ์ด์—ˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Macken said that the model, which had been nearing completion, ended up swallowing everything.

๊ฑฐ์˜ ์™„์„ฑ๋˜์–ด ๊ฐ€๋˜ ๋ชจํ˜•์ด ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ง‘์–ด์‚ผํ‚ค๊ณ  ๋ง์•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งค์ผ„์€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"Before going to bed, I would often be so excessively exhausted that I ended up sitting there for four hours and falling asleep with my head down on the table," he said.

โ€œ์ž ์ž๋ฆฌ์— ๋“ค๊ธฐ ์ „, ์ข…์ข… ์ง€๋‚˜์น˜๊ฒŒ ํ”ผ๋กœํ•œ ๋‚˜๋จธ์ง€, ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋„ค ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ ๊ทธ ์ž๋ฆฌ์— ์•‰์•„ ํ…Œ์ด๋ธ”์— ์—Ž๋“œ๋ ค ์ž ์ด ๋“ค๊ณค ํ–ˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"It got worse. It was an obsession. It still is."

โ€œ์•…ํ™”๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ๊ฐ•๋ฐ•์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๊ธˆ๋„ ๋งˆ์ฐฌ๊ฐ€์ง€๋‹ค.โ€

It is hard to regard this model as a snapshot that accurately captures the modern metropolis.

์ด ๋ชจํ˜•์€ ํ˜„๋Œ€ ๋Œ€๋„์‹œ๋ฅผ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ๋‹ด์•„๋‚ธ ์Šค๋ƒ…์ƒท์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ณด๊ธฐ๋Š” ์–ด๋ ต๋‹ค.

In his small Queens, McCann recreated his favorite childhood diner instead of the modern high-rise that currently stands in its place.

์ž‘์€ ํ€ธ์ฆˆ์—์„œ ๋งค์ผ„์€ ํ˜„์žฌ ๊ทธ ์ž๋ฆฌ์— ์„œ ์žˆ๋Š” ํ˜„๋Œ€ ๊ณ ์ธต ๋นŒ๋”ฉ ๋Œ€์‹ , ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ข‹์•„ํ–ˆ๋˜ ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์‹œ์ ˆ์˜ ์‹๋‹น์„ ์žฌํ˜„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

He also left the old Kosciuszko Bridge, which connects Brooklyn and Queens, exactly as it was, even though it was demolished in 2017 and replaced by a new bridge.

๊ทธ๋Š” ๋˜ํ•œ 2017๋…„์— ์ฒ ๊ฑฐ๋˜์–ด ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ต๋Ÿ‰์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ€์ฒด๋˜์—ˆ์Œ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ , ๋ธŒ๋ฃจํด๋ฆฐ๊ณผ ํ€ธ์ฆˆ๋ฅผ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐํ•˜๋Š” ์˜› ์ฝ”์‹œ์น˜์šฐ์Šˆ์ฝ” ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋‚จ๊ฒจ๋‘์—ˆ๋‹ค.

And in Lower Manhattan, the old Twin Towers of the World Trade Center still stand guard in McCann's miniature Gotham, side by side with One World Trade Center and other gleaming skyscrapers built after the 2001 terrorist attacks.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋กœ์–ด ๋งจํ•ดํŠผ์—์„œ๋Š”, ์„ธ๊ณ„ ๋ฌด์—ญ ์„ผํ„ฐ์˜ ์˜› ์Œ๋‘ฅ์ด ๋นŒ๋”ฉ์ด 2001๋…„ ํ…Œ๋Ÿฌ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ ์ดํ›„ ๊ฑด์„ค๋œ ์› ์›”๋“œ ํŠธ๋ ˆ์ด๋“œ ์„ผํ„ฐ์™€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ฐ˜์ง์ด๋Š” ๋งˆ์ฒœ๋ฃจ๋“ค ์˜†์— ๋‚˜๋ž€ํžˆ, ๋งค์ผ„์˜ ๋ฏธ๋‹ˆ์–ด์ฒ˜ ๊ณ ๋‹ด์— ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์ดˆ์†Œ๋ฅผ ์ง€ํ‚ค๋ฉฐ ์„œ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

"I retained a considerable part of myself that was shaped by the city," McCann said.

โ€œ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋„์‹œ์—์„œ ํ˜•์„ฑ๋œ ๋‚˜ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์ƒ๋‹น ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๊ฐ„์งํ–ˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งค์ผ„์€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"Purely for my own sake."

โ€œ์˜ค๋กœ์ง€ ๋‚˜ ์ž์‹ ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ.โ€

On a recent weekday morning, a steady stream of visitors came into the ground-floor gallery.

์ตœ๊ทผ ํ‰์ผ ์•„์นจ, ๊พธ์ค€ํ•œ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ๊ฐ์˜ ํ๋ฆ„์ด 1์ธต ๊ฐค๋Ÿฌ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ๋“ค์–ด์™”๋‹ค.

They strode purposefully toward the edge of the raised platform, seeking out familiar landmarks or their old neighbourhood.

๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์ต์ˆ™ํ•œ ๋ช…์†Œ๋‚˜ ์˜› ๋™๋„ค๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์•„ raised platform์˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ–ฅํ•ด ์„ฑํผ์„ฑํผ ๊ฑธ์–ด๊ฐ”๋‹ค.

Some raised the binoculars provided for a better view, while the majority simply narrowed their eyes and pointed into the distance.

์ผ๋ถ€๋Š” ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ๊ด€๋žŒ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ œ๊ณต๋œ ์Œ์•ˆ๊ฒฝ์„ ๋“ค์–ด ์˜ฌ๋ ธ๊ณ , ๋Œ€๋‹ค์ˆ˜๋Š” ๊ทธ์ € ๋ˆˆ์„ ๊ฐ€๋Š˜๊ฒŒ ๋œฌ ์ฑ„ ๋จผ ๊ณณ์„ ๊ฐ€๋ฆฌ์ผฐ๋‹ค.

Jonathan Skolnick took a spot at the corner of the model closest to Lower Manhattan and, with his son Toshia listening intently, began tracing his family history across the five boroughs.

์กฐ๋‚˜๋‹จ ์Šค์ฝœ๋‹‰์€ ๋กœ์–ด ๋งจํ•ดํŠผ์— ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ๋ชจํ˜•์˜ ๋ชจํ‰์ด์— ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์žก๊ณ , ๊ทธ์˜ ์•„๋“ค ํ† ์ƒค๊ฐ€ ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ๋“ฃ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ ๋‹ค์„ฏ ๊ฐœ ์ž์น˜๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€๋กœ์งˆ๋Ÿฌ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ฐ€์กฑ ์—ญ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์ถ”์ ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Jonathan pointed to his father's first address in the United States, situated in Manhattan's Lower East Side, near the foot of the Williamsburg Bridge.

์กฐ๋‚˜๋‹จ์€ ๋งจํ•ดํŠผ ๋กœ์–ด ์ด์ŠคํŠธ ์‚ฌ์ด๋“œ, ์œŒ๋ฆฌ์—„์Šค๋ฒ„๊ทธ ๋ธŒ๋ฆฌ์ง€ ๊ธฐ์Šญ ๋ถ€๊ทผ์— ์ž๋ฆฌํ•œ ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€์˜ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‚ด ์ฒซ ์ฃผ์†Œ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€๋ฆฌ์ผฐ๋‹ค.

The neighborhood in Queens where he was born.

๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ํ€ธ์ฆˆ์—์„œ ํƒœ์–ด๋‚œ ๋™๋„ค.

The cemetery where numerous family members are buried.

๋‹ค์ˆ˜์˜ ๊ฐ€์กฑ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์›์ด ๋ฌปํžŒ ๋ฌ˜์ง€.

"I am trying to accomplish all of it relying solely on memory," said the Washington, D.C. area resident.

โ€œ๋‚˜๋Š” ์˜ค๋กœ์ง€ ๊ธฐ์–ต์—๋งŒ ์˜์กดํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ „๋ถ€ ํ•ด๋‚ด๋ ค๊ณ  ์• ์“ฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ์›Œ์‹ฑํ„ด D.C. ์ง€์—ญ ์ฃผ๋ฏผ์ธ ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"I do not retain it completely and accurately."

โ€œ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋น ์ง์—†์ด ์ •ํ™•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€๋Š” ์•Š๋‹ค.โ€

After a lifetime of anonymous dedication, McCann hopes that once the museum exhibition closes on Columbus Day, he will be able to display the model at another venue.

์ต๋ช…์œผ๋กœ ํ‰์ƒ์„ ํ—Œ์‹ ํ•œ ๋์—, ๋งค์ผ„์€ ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€ ์ „์‹œ๊ฐ€ ์ฝœ๋Ÿผ๋ฒ„์Šค ๋ฐ์ด์— ๋ง‰์„ ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ๋ฉด ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์žฅ์†Œ์—์„œ ๋ชจํ˜•์„ ์ „์‹œํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

To date, he has added more than 50 new buildings, and he now hopes to extend his model as far as New Jersey and Long Island.

๊ทธ๋Š” ์ง€๊ธˆ๊นŒ์ง€ 50๊ฐœ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๊ฑด๋ฌผ์„ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ•ด ์™”์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด์ œ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋ชจํ˜•์„ ๋‰ด์ €์ง€์™€ ๋กฑ์•„์ผ๋žœ๋“œ๋กœ๊นŒ์ง€ ํ™•์žฅํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

I strongly recommend that you follow Philip Marcelo's X (Twitter) account (https://x.com/philmarcelo).

Philip Marcelo์˜ X(ํŠธ์œ„ํ„ฐ) ๊ณ„์ •(https://x.com/philmarcelo)์„ ํŒ”๋กœ์šฐํ•˜์‹œ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ ๊ทน ๊ถŒ์žฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

September 18th, 2026

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