James Gulliver Hancock

Fantasy Place Dept: As the train rounded a bend, it lay before him. You almost can t believe it, he says. Growing up with all the movies and the street scenes when you were kid, it had become this fantasy place, according to The Star. There are about 900,000 buildings and properties in the city, according to the New York buildings department. Hancock, who is 34, has drawn some 500. He hasn t kept exact count, though many are documented on his website www.allthebuildingsinnewyork.com James Gulliver Hancock arrived in New York City by train and saw the fabled skyline in the distance. To the young Australian illustrator, it was a city of dreams, one that had spun around in his imagination for years. He wanted to get to know the city to make it real for him and started drawing its buildings. It became a daily obsession. Now he is attempting what is surely the impossible: to draw all the buildings in New York. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.