Mini Manhattan at the Skyscraper Museum

Mini Manhattan by model maker Michael Chesko

How long do you think it would take to make a wooden carving of Manhattan, in miniature?   Ask Michael Chesko, a model maker who lives in Arizona, who has donated two remarkable wood models of lower Manhattan and midtown to  The Skyscraper Museum, where they are on permanent exhibition.   Thousands of hours of research and carving went into these highly accurate mini-Manhattans on a scale of 1:3200 or 3/8 inch = 100 feet.   Wood carver Michael Chesko also has just contributed a mini model of the Pudong skyscrapers for the museum’s current  Shanghai show.

The Skyscraper Museum is at 39 Battery Place, across from the Museum of Jewish Heritage.