Manjinder Kaur has traveled an extraordinary professional journey, from immigrating from India to the U.S. to begin her career as a nurse, to taking the helm as CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health. However, her ascent was anything but easy. A native of Amritsar, Punjab, and the youngest of five siblings, Kaur told the Brooklyn Eagle that when she was coming of age in the 1980s, advanced education was not very common for women.

Happy Tuesday in New York City, where nothing good ever happens to riders of the G-train … until today?

It’s a story as old as the Earth itself: Department of Transportation officials announce mass shutdowns on the G line while they work on signal modernization and track maintenance. Two years ago, the MTA shut down large sections of the line for six weeks over the summer. Last year riders endured another round of weeknight and weekend closures, including four consecutive weekends without service between Court Square and Bedford-Nostrand. This year, the MTA had planned to shut down the line during the December holiday season to finish repairs in the tunnel underneath Newtown Creek.

But businesses and residents in North Brooklyn rallied together to get the holiday shutdowns called off, and in response the MTA has expedited their repairs to finish ahead of schedule, which must be a first in New York City infrastructure. According to a report from Shop Small Greenpoint, North Brooklyn businesses saw a 22% decline in sales during shutdown weekends. Now they won’t have to deal with the hit to foot traffic during their holiday shopping season.

“I am grateful to the MTA for listening to our community and finding a way to complete this important work without disproportionately impacting small businesses during the busiest time of year,” said state Sen. Kristen Gonzalez in a statement.

Our very own little G train — that overcrowded, half-length corgi of a subway train for which we lovingly sprint when we’ve waited on the wrong end of the platform; that Little Engine that Could break down in the tunnel when we’re late getting to Greenpoint from Fort Greene; our decrepit iron pony which spends the entirety of its existence chugging up and down Brooklyn (with a couple brief pitstops in Queens) — is part of the fabric of this borough.

A win for the G is a win for all of Brooklyn.

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“Would you like your receipt?”

It’s a question you’re likely to hear every time you pop into the grocery store or stop for a latte on the way to work. Some people may also have heard warnings that have circulated for more than 15 years that if you say yes, toxic chemicals might rub off on your fingertips.

As a recent example, a 2025 study from the Center for Environmental Health, a nonprofit advocacy organization focused on toxic chemicals in consumer products, claimed that holding a paper receipt for only 10 seconds could result in exposure to unsafe levels of toxic chemicals.

Could something so commonplace really be slowly poisoning people?

Read on to learn more.

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