There's a black hole in the center of our galaxy.

It’s called sagaterias A*

It’s 14 million miles across.

But we’ve never gotten a good look at it…until now.

Astronomers announced today that we’ve finally managed to take a picture of that black hole. Jordy Dalevaar worked on the project.

He’s an astronomer at Columbia University and the Flatiron Institute in New York.

It’s been said that in New York City, you’re always looking for either a job or an apartment. After some residents left the city during covid lockdown, the people who stayed were offered lower rents by landlords eager to fill their apartments. But while the pandemic hasn’t ended, the brief era of slightly cheaper New York City rent is now over for most renters. Reporter Sarah Yokubaitis has more on the renters desperately searching for a deal.

I have accidentally been engaged for a decade. Ten long years. It’s not what my fiance and I planned to do when we got engaged after two years of dating, but it’s what happened. We had every intention of getting married within a year or two when we got engaged in 2012. But later that same year, after I started graduate school, my plans were changed by a freak accident.

A worker advocacy group is accusing the parent company of Applebee's and IHOP of discrimination.

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Organized labor is making a comeback. Starbucks employees are at the forefront, and New York City is one of the epicenters. But can this reinvigorated movement find the same success in the conservative Long Island suburbs?

With the Supreme Court almost certain to overturn Roe v. Wade, abortion bans could be on the horizon in several states. New bills in the New York state legislature aim to protect those from out of state seeking abortion here. Uptown Radio spoke with Columbia Law professor Carol Sanger discusses how they might work in practice.

Julian Abraham describes how meditation has helped improve his life.

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