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Inside the Largest Gingerbread Village in the World

by Rick Anderson

The holiday season is in full swing at the New York Hall of Science in Queens, New York. Opened earlier this month, the museum’s annual GingerBread Lane, devised by chef Jon Lovitch, features a 500-square-foot village of gingerbread structures—over 1,100 of them, in fact. But the village includes much more than the standard houses you might make at home with your kids: There’s a double-decker carousel, a department store, a candy factory, and even a coffee shop.

The village’s firehouse.

With this year’s GingerBread Lane, Lovitch seeks to set a Guinness World Record for the largest gingerbread village—a record he currently holds for his 2014 iteration of the sweet spectacle. At the end of the exhibition, he will dismantle the village and donate some of the houses to children unable to visit the New York Hall of Science while other houses will be available for visitors to take home.

Through January 9 at the New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111th Street, Corona, New York; nyscirg

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