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Truck driver assembles over 800,000 parts as a hobby to complete an NYC modelโ€”now a museum exhibit

Truck driver assembles over 800,000 parts as a hobby to complete an NYC modelโ€”now a museum exhibit

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September 18th, 2026

Truck driver assembles over 800,000 parts as a hobby to complete an NYC modelโ€”now a museum exhibit

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For over two decades, Joe Macken, who has made his living behind the wheel of a truck, has devoted his leisure hours to constructing an immense scale model of his native New York City, fashioning it from balsa wood and foam board.

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

Upon its completion, his daughter persuaded him to show off this sprawling basement creationโ€”encompassing more than 800,000 structuresโ€”on TikTok.

๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ์™„์„ฑํ–ˆ์„ ๋‹น์‹œ, ๊ทธ์˜ ๋”ธ์€ 80๋งŒ ๊ฐœ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฌผ์„ ์•„์šฐ๋ฅด๋Š” ์ด ๊ด‘ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํŽผ์ณ์ง„ ์ง€ํ•˜์‹ค ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์„ ํ‹ฑํ†ก์— ์ž๋ž‘ํ•˜๋„๋ก ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์„ค๋“ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

The video clip went viral almost instantaneously.

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

Macken's model is now on display at the Museum of the City of New York, whose staff, having ascertained that his TikTok video had amassed over 10 million views in the space of a single week, reached out to him.

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

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

โ€œ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ์ด ๋„์‹œ๋ฅผ ์ง€์—ˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๋Š” ์ œ๋ชฉ์˜ ์ด ์ „์‹œ๋Š” 2์›”์— ๋งจํ•ดํŠผ์˜ ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ, ์„ผํŠธ๋Ÿด ํŒŒํฌ ์ธ๊ทผ์—์„œ ๊ฐœ๋ง‰ํ•˜์—ฌ 10์›” 12์ผ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ด์–ด์ง„๋‹ค.

"The act of creating it is in itself so immensely pleasurable that I have never once seriously contemplated the notion of completing it," he declared during a recent visit to the exhibition.

โ€œ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ฐฝ์กฐํ•˜๋Š” ํ–‰์œ„ ์ž์ฒด๊ฐ€ ์ง€๊ทนํžˆ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์›Œ, ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ์™„์„ฑํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฐœ๋…์— ๊ด€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์ง„์ง€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ˆ™๊ณ ํ•ด ๋ณธ ์ ์ด ๊ฒฐ์ฝ” ์—†๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ตœ๊ทผ ์ „์‹œํšŒ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ์—์„œ ์–ธ๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Elizabeth Sherman, the museum's chief curator, declared that this model is a rare work capable of winning the approval of 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 ์–‘์ธก ๋ชจ๋‘์˜ ํ˜ธ์‘์„ ์ด๋Œ์–ด๋‚ด๋Š” ๋ณด๊ธฐ ๋“œ๋ฌธ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์–ธ๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"I am inclined to believe that human beings have always harbored a yearning to embrace this entire cityโ€”this city that is impossible to perceive and impossible to graspโ€”within their own arms.

โ€œ์ธ๊ฐ„์€ ์–ธ์ œ๋‚˜ ์ด ๋„์‹œ ์ „์ฒด๋ฅผ, ์ธ์‹ ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๊ณ  ํŒŒ์•… ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์ด ๋„์‹œ๋ฅผ ์ž๊ธฐ ํ’ˆ์— ์•ˆ๊ณ ์ž ํ•˜๋Š” ์—ด๋ง์„ ์ง€๋‹Œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋‚˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋ฃŒ๋œ๋‹ค.

And that is precisely the manner in which one can survey this city from a bird's-eye view," she remarked.

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

"Nowadays we scarcely possess any means of granting everyone access in such a manner.

โ€œ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚  ๋ชจ๋“  ์ด์—๊ฒŒ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์ ‘๊ทผํ•˜๋Š” ์ผ์„ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์ง€๋‹ˆ๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค.

We prefer the kind of energy that it evokes."

์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ถˆ๋Ÿฌ์ผ์œผํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€๋ฅผ ์„ ํ˜ธํ•œ๋‹ค.โ€

Across more than 300 large foam boards, interconnected like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, the entirety of the five boroughs along with portions of the New Jersey and Long Island suburbs is laid out in meticulous street-level detail.

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

The entire model measures 50 feet (15 meters) in length and nearly 30 feet (9 meters) in width, with each inch of the model representing approximately 160 feet (49 meters).

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

The more than 800,000 structures, ranging mostly from Manhattan's towering skyscrapers to the modest single-family homes of Queens, and extending even to landmarks such as the Statue of Liberty, Yankee Stadium, and the Brooklyn Bridge, were fashioned from lightweight balsa wood.

80๋งŒ ๊ฐœ๊ฐ€ ๋„˜๋Š” ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฌผ์€ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ๋งจํ•ดํŠผ์˜ ์šฐ๋š ์†Ÿ์€ ๋งˆ์ฒœ๋ฃจ์—์„œ ํ€ธ์ฆˆ์˜ ์†Œ๋ฐ•ํ•œ ๋‹จ๋… ์ฃผํƒ์— ์ด๋ฅด๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€, ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€ ์ž์œ ์˜ ์—ฌ์‹ ์ƒ, ์–‘ํ‚ค ์Šคํƒ€๋””์›€, ๋ธŒ๋ฃจํด๋ฆฐ ๋ธŒ๋ฆฌ์ง€์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ช…์†Œ์— ์ด๋ฅด๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€, ๊ฐ€๋ฒผ์šด ๋ฐœ์‚ฌ๋‚˜๋ฌด๋กœ ์กฐ์„ฑ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Macken recounts that the inspiration for this model can be traced back to an elementary school field trip to the Queens Museum, where he beheld the Panorama of the City of New York, the celebrated scale model commissioned 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”๋˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์œผ๋กœ ๊ฑฐ์Šฌ๋Ÿฌ ์˜ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ„๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค.

This model was even equipped with a helicopter-style aerial gondola ride.

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

Yet it was not until he had entered his forties that he, a Queens native, finally began to bring it to fruition in earnest.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ์‹ญ ๋Œ€์— ์ ‘์–ด๋“ค๊ณ  ๋‚˜์„œ์•ผ, ํ€ธ์ฆˆ ํƒœ์ƒ์ธ ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋งˆ์นจ๋‚ด ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๊ตฌํ˜„ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

At the time, McCann and his young family had just undertaken a move from Long Island all the way to the Albany area of upstate New York.

๋‹น์‹œ ๋งค์ผ„๊ณผ ๊ทธ์˜ ์–ด๋ฆฐ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์€ ๋กฑ์•„์ผ๋žœ๋“œ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ถ๋ถ€ ๋‰ด์š•์ฃผ ์˜ฌ๋ฒ„๋‹ˆ ์ผ๋Œ€์— ์ด๋ฅด๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ง‰ ์ด์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐํ–‰ํ•œ ์ฐธ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

"It seems I was unconsciously yearning for New York," he said.

โ€œ๋ฌด์˜์‹์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋‰ด์š•์„ ๊ฐˆ๋งํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋˜ ๋“ฏํ•˜๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Macken, availing himself of the rudimentary materials readily obtainable at any hobby shop, took as his point of departure Rockefeller Center and its iconic main tower, "30 Rock."

๋งค์ผ„์€ ์ทจ๋ฏธ ์ƒ์ ์—์„œ ์†์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ๊ตฌ๋“ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ดˆ ์ž์žฌ๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ, ๋กํŽ ๋Ÿฌ ์„ผํ„ฐ์™€ ๊ทธ ์ƒ์ง•์ ์ธ ๋ฉ”์ธ ํƒ€์›Œ์ธ โ€œ30 Rockโ€์„ ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ผ์•˜๋‹ค.

From that starting point, he undertook the roughly decade-long endeavor of constructing Midtown Manhattan, in the course of which the Empire State Building and its flamboyant Art Deco spire proved to be the most intractable components.

๊ทธ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๊ทธ๋Š” ์•ฝ 10๋…„์— ๊ฑธ์นœ ๊ณต์ •์ธ ๋ฏธ๋“œํƒ€์šด ๋งจํ•ดํŠผ์„ ๊ฑด์„คํ•˜์˜€์œผ๋‹ˆ, ์— ํŒŒ์ด์–ด ์Šคํ…Œ์ดํŠธ ๋นŒ๋”ฉ๊ณผ ํ™”๋ คํ•œ ์•„๋ฅด๋ฐ์ฝ” ์ฒจํƒ‘์ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋‚œํ•ดํ•œ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์œผ๋กœ ํŒ๋ช…๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

"I was consumed by a yearning to bring it to flawless realization," Macken said.

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

"Because people were going to witness it."

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

Macken is someone who possesses no background whatsoever in the fields of model-making, architecture, or design.

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

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

๊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 persisted in his work, Macken underwent a transformation into a considerably more swift and efficient individual.

๊ทธ๋Ÿผ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์ž‘์—…์„ ๊ฑฐ๋“ญํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋ฉด์„œ ๋งค์ผ„์€ ํ•œ์ธต ๋” ์‹ ์†ํ•˜๊ณ  ํšจ์œจ์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณ€๋ชจํ•ด ๊ฐ”๋‹ค.

"Had I known I would relish it to such a degree, I would have started twenty years sooner," he remarked.

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

"One of those buildings that took me several hours when I first embarked upon it, I can now assemble even while 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 remarks that he has devoted virtually all of his leisure time to model making.

๋งค์ผ„์€ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์—ฌ๊ฐ€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์ค‘ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์ „๋ถ€๋ฅผ ๋ชจํ˜• ์ œ์ž‘์— ํˆฌ์ž…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•œ๋‹ค.

He would gather materials when he traveled to the New Jersey shore with his family in the summer, and when he had spare time while driving a bus on weekends.

๊ทธ๋Š” ์—ฌ๋ฆ„์— ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋‰ด์ €์ง€ ํ•ด์•ˆ์œผ๋กœ ์—ฌํ–‰์„ ๋– ๋‚  ๋•Œ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ฃผ๋ง์— ๋ฒ„์Šค๋ฅผ ์šด์ „ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์—ฌ์œ ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์„ ๋•Œ ์ž์žฌ๋ฅผ ์ฑ™๊ฒผ๋‹ค.

"It was simply something I had no means of preventing," he said.

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

As the model neared completion, Machen said that it had swallowed up everything.

๋ชจํ˜•์ด ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์™„์„ฑ๋˜์ž, ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ง‘์–ด์‚ผ์ผฐ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งค์ผ„์€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"Before going to bed, quite often, overcome by sheer exhaustion, I would end up falling asleep at the dining table, seated in that very spot, for four hours on end," he confided.

โ€œ์ž ์ž๋ฆฌ์— ๋“ค๊ธฐ ์ „, ์ ์ž–์€ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ๊ทน์‹ฌํ•œ ํ”ผ๋กœ์— ์‚ฌ๋กœ์žกํžŒ ๋‚˜๋จธ์ง€, ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋„ค ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ ๊ทธ ์ž๋ฆฌ์— ์•‰์€ ์ฑ„ ์‹ํƒ์—์„œ ์ž ์ด ๋“ค๊ณค ํ–ˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋Š” ํ„ธ์–ด๋†“์•˜๋‹ค.

"It gradually worsened. It was a kind of compulsion. It still is, even now."

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

This model cannot be described as a snapshot that accurately captures the modern metropolis.

๋ณธ ๋ชจํ˜•์€ ํ˜„๋Œ€ ๋Œ€๋„์‹œ๋ฅผ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ํฌ์ฐฉํ•œ ์Šค๋ƒ…์ƒท์ด๋ผ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋‹ค.

In a small section of Queens, McCann recreated not the contemporary high-rise that currently occupies the site, but the childhood restaurant to which he had been most attached.

ํ€ธ์ฆˆ์˜ ์ž‘์€ ๊ตฌ์—ญ์—์„œ ๋งค์ผ„์€ ํ˜„์žฌ ๊ทธ ์ž๋ฆฌ์— ๋“ค์–ด์„œ ์žˆ๋Š” ํ˜„๋Œ€์  ๊ณ ์ธต ๋นŒ๋”ฉ์ด ์•„๋‹Œ, ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์• ์ฐฉ์„ ๊ฐ€์กŒ๋˜ ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์‹œ์ ˆ์˜ ์‹๋‹น์„ ์žฌํ˜„ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

He also left the old Kosciuszko Bridge, which links Brooklyn and Queens, exactly as it was, even though it had been 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 ์ž‡๋Š” ์˜› ์ฝ”์‹œ์น˜์šฐ์Šˆ์ฝ” ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋‚จ๊ฒจ๋‘์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Moreover, the old Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan still stand sentinel in McCann's miniature Gotham, side by side with other gleaming skyscrapers, including One World Trade Center, which was built in the aftermath of the 2001 terrorist attacks.

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

"I retained much of my own self in the city," McCann remarked.

โ€œ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋„์‹œ์˜ ๋‚ด ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋งŽ์€ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ–ˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งค์ผ„์€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"Simply for my own sake."

โ€œ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ๋‚˜๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ.โ€

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

์ตœ๊ทผ ํ‰์ผ ์•„์นจ, ๋Š์ž„์—†์ด ์ด์–ด์ ธ ์˜ค๋˜ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ๊ฐ์˜ ํ–‰๋ ฌ์ด 1์ธต ๊ฐค๋Ÿฌ๋ฆฌ ์•ˆ์œผ๋กœ ์œ ์ž…๋˜์–ด ๋“ค์–ด์™”๋‹ค.

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

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

While a few raised the binoculars provided in hopes of securing a better view, the majority merely squinted and pointed at the distant horizon with their fingertips.

์ผ๊ฐ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋ณด๋‹ค ์–‘ํ˜ธํ•œ ๊ด€๋žŒ์„ ๋„๋ชจํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ๋น„์น˜๋œ ์Œ์•ˆ๊ฒฝ์„ ๋“ค์–ด ์˜ฌ๋ ธ์œผ๋‚˜, ๋Œ€๋‹ค์ˆ˜๋Š” ๋‹จ์ง€ ๋ˆˆ์„ ๊ฐ€๋Š˜๊ฒŒ ๋œฌ ์ฑ„ ์ € ๋ฉ€๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์†๋์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋ฆฌ์ผฐ์„ ๋ฟ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Having stationed himself at the corner of the model nearest to Lower Manhattan, Jonathan Skolnick began tracing his family history across the five boroughs, with his son Tasha listening intently.

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

Jonathan pointed to his father's first residence in the United States โ€” situated in Manhattan's Lower East Side, near the foot of the Williamsburg Bridge, the very neighborhood where he had been born in Queens and where a number of family members lay buried in a cemetery.

์กฐ๋‚˜๋‹จ์€ ๋งจํ•ดํŠผ ๋กœ์–ด ์ด์ŠคํŠธ ์‚ฌ์ด๋“œ, ์œŒ๋ฆฌ์—„์Šค๋ฒ„๊ทธ ๋ธŒ๋ฆฌ์ง€ ๊ธฐ์Šญ ์ธ๊ทผ์— ์œ„์น˜ํ•œ ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€์˜ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‚ด ์ตœ์ดˆ ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ์ง€ โ€” ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ํ€ธ์ฆˆ์—์„œ ํƒœ์–ด๋‚œ ๋™๋„ค์ด์ž ๋‹ค์ˆ˜์˜ ๊ฐ€์กฑ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์›์ด ์ž ๋“ค์–ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฌ˜์ง€ โ€” ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€๋ฆฌ์ผฐ๋‹ค.

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

โ€œ๋‚˜๋Š” ์˜ค๋กœ์ง€ ๊ธฐ์–ต์—๋งŒ ์˜์กดํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ์™„์ˆ˜ํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ๋ถ„ํˆฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ์›Œ์‹ฑํ„ด D.C. ์ง€์—ญ ์ฃผ๋ฏผ์ธ ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"I do not retain all of it accurately."

โ€œ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ „๋ถ€ ์ •ํ™•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค.โ€

After a lifetime of dedication in anonymity, McCann yearns to see his model displayed elsewhere once the museum exhibition draws to a close on Columbus Day.

์ต๋ช…์˜ ์‚ถ ์†์—์„œ ํ‰์ƒ์„ ํ—Œ์‹ ํ•œ ๋์—, ๋งค์ผ„์€ ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€ ์ „์‹œ๊ฐ€ ์ฝœ๋Ÿผ๋ฒ„์Šค ๋ฐ์ด์— ๋ง‰์„ ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ๋ฉด ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋ชจํ˜•์„ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ณณ์—์„œ ์ „์‹œํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐˆ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค.

He has, over the years, added more than fifty new buildings to his creation, and he now harbours hopes of extending his model into the New Jersey and Long Island areas as well.

๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ฐ„ 50๊ฐœ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ์‹ ์ถ• ๊ฑด๋ฌผ์„ ์ฆ์ถ•ํ•ด ์™”์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋ชจํ˜•์„ ๋‰ด์ €์ง€์™€ ๋กฑ์•„์ผ๋žœ๋“œ ์ผ๋Œ€๊นŒ์ง€ ํ™•์žฅํ•˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Following Philip Marcelo at https://x.com/philmarcelo is, one might well say, an indispensable step that simply must not be overlooked.

Philip Marcelo ๋‹˜์„ https://x.com/philmarcelo ์—์„œ ํŒ”๋กœ์šฐํ•˜์‹œ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด์•ผ๋ง๋กœ ๊ฐ„๊ณผํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์•ˆ ๋  ํ•„์ˆ˜์ ์ธ ์กฐ์น˜๋ผ ์•„๋‹ˆํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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