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Queens Museum’s Panorama offers chance for visitors to own tiny versions of NYC properties
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0:48Now PlayingRent is cheap at the Queens Museum.
The cultural institution has been recording the personal stories of misty-eyed guests who pay as little as $100 to “rent” a tiny piece of property on its “Panorama of the City of New York” — a 9,335-square-foot, to-scale model of the Big Apple.
Hundreds of so-called deeds to tiny buildings have been doled out through the museum’s Adopt-A-Building program, allowing New Yorkers to commemorate special moments in their lives or those of their loved ones.
Those include a woman who bought a miniature of the home where her mom grew up in the 1930s and a couple who honored their anniversary with a “deed” to their first apartment as a married pair.
“People get really vulnerable and intimate with this immediately when you ask them about it,” Lynn Maliszewski, the Assistant Director of Collections and Archives, told The Post during an interview at the museum Thursday.
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