For the duration of the Queens Museum’s expansion, AsianInNY’s friend the amazing photographer Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao has been in residence capturing the metamorphosis of the New York City Building. The resulting body of work, New York City Building Time Lapse, 2009-2013: Photographs by Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao, presents a series of 37 of Liao’s color photographs including nine large-format 30 x 72 in. pigment ink prints, and a contact sheet of the same size consisting of 28 other images. Depicted in Time Lapse are worn walls in various states of demolition and construction and stairwells lined in original terra cotta tiles reminiscent of the building’s Beaux-Arts architecture, contrasting with bird’s eye views of barrel-vaulted ceilings revealing the modernist elements of the Grimshaw redesign. [Read More]

The New York Mets today announced the franchise will salute U.S. service men and women with Military Mondays during the 2014 season at Citi Field with complimentary tickets, retail discounts and community outreach events. [Read More]

On Oct. 16, Jimmy Kimmel aired a segment of his Kids Table, where he asked young kids how the U.S. could solve the $1.3 trillion trade imbalance with China. “Kill everyone in China,” answered one laughing 6-year-old. Since then thousands of protesters targeted ABC Studios in Burbank, Houston, Phoenix, and New York to ask ABC for a public apology. [Read More]