Feb
23
City officials said Monday that they were scrapping a controversial plan to replace some vocational programs at a Bronx high school with a troubled 18-month-old charter school.
The decision, a rare instance of the city changing course on a proposal to place a charter school in a public school, was made after a meeting last Wednesday between Joel I. Klein, the schools chancellor, and construction industry representatives. The construction executives expressed concern that the charter school would not be able to replicate the construction trades programs at the high school, Alfred E. Smith Career and Technical Education High School, said Gregg B. Betheil, who is in charge of the city’s vocational educational programs.
The city still plans to close Smith’s construction trade programs — in heating and ventilation, plumbing, electrical installation, carpentry and architectural engineering — because of low graduation rates. But instead of moving the charter school, the New York City Charter School for Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industries, into the space, the Department of Education will work with industry representatives to develop an appropriate replacement school, which may be a city-run school or a charter, Mr. Betheil said. Read more..
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Nov
21
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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Nov
11
Like the other firefighters who’ve made it to the final round of the Daily News’ first 
FDNY Five Alarm Cook Off, sponsored by the Municipal Credit Union and Best Buy, Jimmy Lowe has been taking a ribbing from his crew, Bronx Rescue 3 in the Tremont neighborhood.
It all stems from Lowe’s impressive knife skills: Not only can he deftly butterfly the flank steak for his winning mushroom-and-bacon-stuffed pinwheels in seconds, the 18-year FDNY veteran can carve cucumbers and tomatoes into rosettes to garnish his already exceptional plates. That’s a trick that’ll surely wow celeb chef Rachael Ray, who will host the finals on her morning show this Friday.
Jimmy Lowe prepares his specialty steak dinner for his fellow firefighters in the Bronx.
Except that in the Bronx borough semi-finals, Lowe made the mistake of cracking wise about those fragile flowers, saying they hailed from his feminine side. As a result, the brothers of “Big Blue” aren’t letting him live it down.
“The whole department was calling up,” says company Captain Jim Ellson, “asking, ‘is his locker painted pink yet?’ ”
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