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Community Boards are the little City Halls of the city, dealing with local issues involving city agencies, and serving an advisory role in zoning and other land-use issues.

COMMUNITY BOARD 1 (Melrose, Mott Haven) meets at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, March 27, at Lincoln Hospital, Conference Room 6, 234 Morris Ave., at E. 149th St. Call (718) 585-7117.

COMMUNITY BOARD 4 (Highbridge, Mount Eden and Concourse) meets at 6 p.m., Tuesday, March 25, at Bronx Lebanon Hospital, Murray Cohen Auditorium, 1650 Grand Concourse. Call (718) 299-0800.

COMMUNITY BOARD 5 (Morris Heights, Fordham, Bathgate and Mount Hope) meets at 6 p.m., Wednesday, March 26, at St. Simon Stock School, 2195 Valentine Ave. Call (718) 364-2030.

COMMUNITY BOARD 7 (Norwood, Jerome Park, Kingsbridge Heights and University Heights) meets at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 18, at Kittay House, 2550 Webb Ave. Call (718) 933-5650.

COMMUNITY BOARD 9 (Soundview, Clasons Point, Parkchester, Bruckner and Harding Park) meets at 7 p.m., Thursday, March 20, at CB9 Office, 1967 Turnbull Ave. Call (718) 823-3034.

COMMUNITY BOARD 10 (Throgs Neck, City Island, Pelham Bay, Co-op City, Zerega, Westchester Square, Country Club and Edgewater) meets at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, March 13, at American Legion Hall, 550 City Island Ave. Call (718) 892-1161.

COMMUNITY BOARD 12 (Wakefield, Williamsbridge, Woodlawn, Eastchester and Baychester) meets at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, March 27, at CB12 office, 4101 White Plains Road. Call (718) 881-4455.

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1/2/2008 

Crime Brings 2008 In With A Bang!

A string of eight violent incidents across the city during the early hours of the new year yesterday, including three shootings involving police officers, make it clear police have a difficult task ahead in 2008 as they try cut the number of homicides from last year’s 494, the low point since reliable records have been kept.

The first recorded shots of 2008 were aimed at police officers. Before an hour had passed, bullets whizzed toward police in three separate shootings in the Bronx and Manhattan, hitting two marked police cars but leaving officers unscathed. Officers fired back one time, hitting a man in the buttocks.

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Bronx Man Suffers Jolt After Walking On Manhole

A Bronx man suffered a shocking jolt when he stepped on a manhole while crossing the street and was overcome by a rush of electricity.

Stray voltage investigators for Consolidated Edison were at Southern Boulevard and Leggett Avenue where the victim, 34-year-old Jermaine Bedell, told police he was jolted and burned around 9:30 in front of the Giant Launder Center. Bedell said it happened the moment he stepped off the sidewalk and onto a metal cover on the street.

Bedell’s girlfriend Yvette Reyes says he called her in agony.

“All I understood was the left side of his body [was hurt, he was saying] ‘I’m in excruciating pain in the ambulance,” Reyes told CBS 2.

Police and EMS confirmed Bedell was brought to Lincoln Hospital where officers said they noticed a smell of something burning on him.

“Do we pay to get excruciating pain in the streets?” said Reyes. “You don’t know what you’re going to step into.”

In the past year, Con Ed received 115 reports of stray voltage. About 40 of those cases involved Con Ed equipment..

A company spokesperson said Con Ed is proactive about the problem, with a fleet of trucks dedicated to stray voltage-related repairs. CBS 2 was told such incidents are down dramatically since the death of 30-year-old Jodie Lane, a Columbia University graduate student, in 2004. She was killed stepping on a metal plate.

Some residents now simply try and avoid walking on the covers at all costs. “Just stay away from these metal grates, that’s about it,” advises city resident Lou Kizner, who admits he doesn’t always follow that rule himself.

Bedell, a former school custodian, will remain hospitalized overnight. The extent of his injuries is being kept under wraps by his doctors.

In investigating Bedell’s incident, Con Ed says there was no stray voltage found and no malfunction in the larger service area that would explain Bedell’s claim that a simple walk down the street turned dangerously electrifying.

SOURCE: WCBSTV

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