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A 67-year old Bronx man is suing NYC and the Montefiore Medical Center for throwing out his severed ear, the Daily News reports. A chunk of Eduardo Garcia’s ear was bitten off by his son’s bull terrier on May 10 last year. Emergency workers put the ear on ice in the ambulance, but when they got to Montefiore, EMS workers “threw the hunk of flesh in the trash” because of the risk of infection if it were reattached.

Garcia’s lawyer, Andrew Friedman, said, “Now, he’s got a deformity…they deprived him of an opportunity to have treatment,” to rebuild the ear. Garcia was instead left with “22 stitches, two staples and life without a lobe.”

While it’s horrible the hospital apparently messed up like this, perhaps fate has bigger plans for that ear, and an impressionable young man will find it and be swept up in a surreal journey through the dark heart of suburbia. Read more..

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Oh, the humiliation!

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter suited up in Yankee pinstripes yesterday after his team was routed by the Bronx Bombers in the World Series — although it was for a good cause.

Nutter’s shirt bore No. 55 — in honor of Series MVP Hideki Matsui — when he painted some hallways at IS 131 in The Bronx. The paint job at the Soundview school was the price Nutter paid for losing his World Series bet with Mayor Bloomberg.

“I wish we were doing this in Philadelphia,” said the disappointed Phillies fanatic as he took a break from slathering green paint on the school’s walls.

Mayor Bloomberg was also wearing a Yankee jersey — No. 27, signifying the Bombers’ 27th world championship.

“I’m looking forward to having Mayor Nutter here next year, painting another school,” he said.

Afterward, the mayors autographed their jerseys and gave them to school Principal Ed Leotta. Read more..

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Senator Klein will join Senators Ruth Hassell-Thompson, Assembly Member Carl E. Heastie and Yankees announcer for YES Network and Former Major League Baseball Player Ken Singleton in lighting the Menorah and Christmas Tree at the Annual New York Botanical Garden Ceremony

NEW YORK- Senator Jeff Klein (D-Bronx/Westchester) will participate in the New York Botanical Garden’s Holiday Tree and Menorah-lighting Ceremony and Sing-a-long. After lighting the Menorah and Christmas tree, the Westchester Chordsmen will sing holiday carols from all traditions.

WHO:    Senator Jeff Klein, Senator Ruth Hassell-Thompson, Assembly Member Carl E. Heastie, Yankees announcer for YES Network and  Former Major League Baseball Player Ken Singleton, New York Botanical Garden Staff and hundreds of community members

WHAT:  Klein, Hassell-Thompson, Heastie and Singleton will light Menorah and Christmas tree at New York Botanical Garden Holiday Ceremony

WHEN:  Saturday, November 21st, 4:15PM

 WHERE:  Bronx Botanical Garden, 412 Bedford Park Blvd.,  Bronx, NY  (Leon Levy Visitor Center)

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Abby Ross
Communications Director
Deputy Majority Leader Jeff Klein
New York State Senate
3612 E. Tremont Ave.
Bronx, NY 10465
718-822-2049
479-283-3505 (cell)
abbynews@gmail.com

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An explosion at a Consolidated Edison substation has set off a massive oil-spill cleanup along the Bronx River.

Scores of workers are cleaning up an unknown quantity of a light, clear oil similar to mineral oil that flowed into the city’s storm sewer system on Nov. 4 when a 345-kilovolt transformer containing 30,000 gallons of the fluid caught fire. A machine malfunction created an electrical arc that ignited the oil at 152 Kingston Ave. in the Dunwoodie neighborhood.

The resulting smoky fire was controlled in 20 minutes, and no one lost power from the event. Much of the oil, which was used as a dielectric fluid to cool the transformers, burned or remained on-site, but some of it mixed with the water used to quell the flames and escaped into the city’s sewer system, where it flowed into the Bronx River near the Cross County Parkway. Read more..

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Subway riders at three stations in the Bronx will start seeing countdown clocks indicating the time when the next train will arrive, according to a report in The New York Times.

The report said the clocks will appear at three stations on the No. 6 line, joining clocks put in place on the L line in 2007. Transit officials hope to bring the clocks to all stations on numbered lines by spring 2011 Read more..

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