Tons of buildings aren't residential. And there's still lots of single family homes as you get out into Queens, Staten Island, up further in the Bronx and further out in Brooklyn sometimes too.
I wonder how many people are living in buildings with 100+ people as I am (estimate a couple thousand in my building from back of napkin math I think).
New York City's fairly vast when you take into account Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and the Bronx. Manhattan's less than a tenth of the land area.
If you look at the video on his tiktok, the boroughs are divided into rectangles with clear shifts between the borders. For the boroughs at least, it seems like he repeated a style for a given rectangle and then switched to a different style for the next one. The result is more impressionistic, it doesn't seem to be accurate down to the building level.
It's possible his Manhattan is more accurate, I didn't try to check.
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...
Is there a miniature version of this guy in the model, with a miniature version of the miniature city?
That seems high ... only 10 people per building?
I wonder how many people are living in buildings with 100+ people as I am (estimate a couple thousand in my building from back of napkin math I think).
New York City's fairly vast when you take into account Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and the Bronx. Manhattan's less than a tenth of the land area.
It's possible his Manhattan is more accurate, I didn't try to check.