Steven Greenhouse (NYT) QUEENS: WOMAN SAVED FROM SUBWAY TRACKS A woman who jumped onto the tracks of the G line in Queens yesterday was pulled to safety from under a train and suffered only minor injuries, police and transit officials said.
As a result, the morning rush, the first since the subway map was rescrambled to send more trains over the bridge and give most Brooklyn residents a faster ride to Midtown, went smoothly, except for some minor delays, according to transit officials, although there was still plenty of subterranean confusion to go around.
There are those who think, or hope, the sheer minor inconvenience of its transit status might turn out to be the saving grace that spares Greenpoint from a fate worse than gentrification: an overdose of hipsters whose roots in the community are superficial.
Heavy rains caused minor flooding which forced transit officials to shut down several roads.
Three transit workers received minor injuries and were hospitalized.
Mass transit officials reported minor delays on subways and commuter railroads.
The city also reported minor emissions reductions from some transit systems, waste management, and natural-gas-burning stoves and other household appliances.
Furthermore, we could not separate chronic inflammation as a feature of COPD and transit inflammation caused by minor infection or inhalation of air pollutants.
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The transit officer, Frank Zaluk, 37, had minor injuries to his arm and back, and a plainclothes officer, Detective Thomas J. Healy, 37, injured his back.
