NEW YORK, NY.- The Times Square Alliance presents a month-long public art installation which showcases 95 photographs by Hidemi Takagi chronicling packaged food imports from 47 countries found in shops in immigrant neighborhoods across New York City. “Blender” is the first public art project to be projected on the seven video monitors at the entrance to the Times Square Visitor Center. The images are accompanied by descriptions of the neighborhoods and locations of the shops offering tourists a different way to experience New York City. The Visitor Center installation with its color-saturated images of candy wrappers, canned food or cookie boxes — produced around the world and sold in 35 immigrant neighborhoods throughout New York City — includes a unique vendor cart stacked with sample foods, the book “Blender”, and free postcards of five photographs with the locations of the shops. Outside, all