The tradition of Langar is important to Sikh communities all over the world. Langar is the community meal, offered daily. The Sikh Cultural Society in Queens gave reporter Lucy Soucek a look at the inner workings of their Langar kitchen.

Welcome to Langar

A Gloomy Morning in Central Park

An interview with an Italian-American Brooklynite who gardened through the pandemic and is getting back into it come spring 2021

Lily Lopate: A Gardener's Oasis (3.20.21)

During the pandemic, birding, which involves finding and identifying birds outdoors, has soared in popularity. It’s safe, solitary, and you may even spot a celebrity. Joanna Robin reports from Manhattan.

Birding in Central Park

Federal and state governments have tried to support unemployed Americans since the start of the pandemic. The CARES Act sent out stimulus checks, expanded unemployment eligibility, and gave workers extra money. But undocumented workers were excluded.

Now in New York, as lawmakers finalize the state’s budget for the year, those workers are demanding relief.

Essential Workers Hunger Strike for Unemployment Funds

Taxi Medallion Owners Protest Mayor de Blasio Latest Relief Plan at City Hall

Live coverage of a neighborhood protest in Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn over the ongoing contentious rezoning issue that has residents at odds with developers.

Lily Lopate_Gowanus Canal Day Story

New York City has three Chinatowns, but not one has a traditional red Chinese archway. That’s about to change. As the city celebrates Lunar New Year, an almost $60 million dollar renovation will bring the first of these iconic arches to the city. Marine Saint joined the festivities.

Marine Saint- Chinatown's Missing Archway

"I didn't realise how physical a process grief was - like being hit by a car."

One evening in the autumn of 2013, the American financial journalist and broadcaster Sally Herships received a short email from her husband telling her he was never coming home again. At first she thought it was a joke, but when she got home he and a suitcase had gone.

As Sally's life unravels, she begins to keep an audio diary. It's a way both of processing what's happened to her and of creating a support mechanism as she tries to cope with the aftermath. From the night he left, her husband cuts off all contact and Sally, broken-hearted, is tortured by a single question. Why?

"I think this is one of the stages of heartbreak. There's the ice cream stage, the comfort food stage and the doughnut stage. Maybe they all fall under comfort food, but I'm lactose intolerant so I can't really have ice cream. I'm just making up for that with doughnuts."

Sally's vulnerability, defiance and the mundane practicalities of survival are laid bare in her recordings and in her reflections on how she strove to heal herself after this seismic betrayal.

With specially composed music by Nina Perry and Danny Keane.

First broadcast 25th November 2016, BBC Radio 4
Produced by Sally Herships

As Many Leaves

Laura Rothenberg tried to live a normal life, with lungs that betrayed her and the awareness that she might not live to see her 30th birthday.

http://www.radiodiaries.org/my-so-called-lungs

My So-Called Lungs

A&A Bakes and Doubles, a family-owned Trinidadian restaurant in Brooklyn has won a James Beard Award. The category--America’s Classics-- is given to local restaurants that have been in business for more than 10 years. For a restaurant, it’s like winning the food Oscars.The accomplishment has its rewards: recognition, validation, and an avalanche of new customers. But as Andrea Salcedo finds,  for small community restaurants, awards may also come with drawbacks.

Culinary awards: A 'double edged sword' for small community restaurants

This is a weekly Uptown Radio broadcast from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Culinary awards: A 'double edged sword' for small community restaurants

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