Meet Chi-Tien Lui, the Television Repair Man Preserving MoMA's Vintage Electronic Art

With the price of electronics getting lower and lower each year, we have evolved into a replace-over-repair culture when it comes to things like televisions and stereos. Once commonplace around New York City, many of the old electronics repair shops have closed down. So if you are a museum tasked with preserving and displaying vintage electronics, how do you repair something when it inevitably breaks? In this profile video from Great Big Story, meet Chi-Tien Lui, the vintage electronics repairman in Lower Manhattan who is the go-to guy for the MoMA, Whitney, Smithsonian, and other museums who display electronic art.

Chi-Tien Lui is an electrical engineer and technician whose craft has evolved to the realm of high art. Born in China, he trained as a technician in Taiwan before moving to the U.S. and setting up his own shop in downtown Manhattan in 1968. During this time, televisions began to evolve and video became an important part of the experimental art scene, especially for big players like Andy Warhol and John Lennon. But, over time, wear and tear and years sitting in museums can cause machinery to fail, which means the potential of losing priceless art forever. That’s where Chi-Tien Lui comes in. He’s become the go-to guy for institutions like the Smithsonian and MoMA to preserve these legendary electronics.

Check Out the Mini, Hand-Held Calzones at Panzerotti Bites in Carroll Gardens

Panzerotti Bites is a unique Italian food joint in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, that serves up a specialty from the Puglia region of Italy: mini, hand-held, deep-fried calzone called a panzerotto. In this video from our friends at First We Feast, learn all about the popular spot and the different types of panzerotti they offer.

Calzones make for an objectively perfect meal. The only problem with the folded pocket of meat and cheese? You can't eat more of them. Enter: the panzerotto. Slightly smaller than a calzone, and made with a lighter, more airy dough, the panzerotto is built to excel in two key areas: variety and portability. Where a calzone leaves diners stuffed and table-bound, panzerotti are billed as a street food, allowing folded-pizza fans to enjoy a number of different fillings as they stroll. At Panzerotti Bites, a new home for the Puglian staple in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, proprietors Vittoria Lattanzio and Pasquale De Ruvo are striving to carve out a niche for the half-moon dish all its own. Lightly fried and stuffed with mozzarella and marinara sauce, panzerotti deserve your respect without comparison or contrast.

Times Square Alliance Releases Their 'Year in Review 2018' Video

Unless you have to pass through for work, some sort of event, or have out-of-town relatives here, most New Yorkers don't often head to Times Square… at least above ground. As such, you may have missed many of the events that take place in the square throughout the year. Check out this year in review video from the Times Square Alliance to get caught up on what went down in the "Crossroads of America" this past year.

A recap of Times Square over the past year: new businesses, plaza programming, public art projects, and more.