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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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A cat in the Bronx is lucky to be alive after being trapped in the engine of a car Monday.

Police say the cat got stuck in the engine of a Nissan Murano on Arthur Avenue in Tremont just after 2 p.m.

They say the driver went about two miles without realizing the feline was there.

Rescue crews were able to pull it out.

The cat was taken to Animal Care and Control and is said to be in good condition. Read more..

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                   The start of school is just around the corner

 No doubt students across the Bronx are enjoying one last day of summer freedom before school doors open on Wednesday.

The new school year brings 18 new schools to the Bronx - including four charter schools - five elementary schools, seven middle schools and two high schools.

“These new schools will give families in the Bronx more choices,” said Department of Education spokeswoman Melody Meyer. “The new schools we’ve opened across the borough over the past seven years have done exceptionally well in helping students succeed,” she continued, “and so we look to continue that success.”

Among the new school programs is the Creston Academy at 120 E. 184th St. in Fordham, one of two small middle schools with about 100 sixth-graders to replace failing Middle School 399.

According to Insideschools.org, the school will focus “on issues unique to adolescence” to help keep students engaged.

The Carl C. Icahn elementary charter school in the James Monroe Annex at 1551 E. 172nd St. in Bronx River will open with about 100 kindergarten through second-graders.

It is modeled after the original Icahn Charter School, which opened in Tremont in 2001. The Icahn schools have been praised for high academic performance, small classes and extended classroom hours, with waiting lists to get in.

Another sought-after program is the Girls Prep Charter School of South Bronx, at 681 Kelly St. in Longwood.

“This is already a very successful charter school on the lower East Side in Manhattan,” Meyer said. “Many Bronx parents might not know about it, but it’s very much a high-demand school.”

For parents, the borough president’s office has partnered with the nonprofit Advocates for Children to host a series of education workshops this fall.

The first workshop, General Education: Rights of Students and Parents, will cover enrollment, transfer and transportation, and voluntary and involuntary transfers and discharges.

The workshop will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sept. 21 at the Bronx County Courthouse, 851 Grand Concourse, first floor. For more information, call Jesse Mojica at the borough president’s office at (718) 590-3515.
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A group of Hispanic males have shouted anti-Mexican slurs in three bias-related attacks in the same Bronx neighborhood in as many days, police said.

All three assaults occurred in Tremont and were perpetrated by at least four men who are believed to be Dominican, police said.

In each attack, the crew pelted their victims with anti-Mexican invective and then roughed them up - stabbing one victim.

On Monday, the group pounced on a 47-year-old man at 4:50 a.m. in front of a building on E. 181 St., police said.

On Sunday, the crew stabbed a 53-year-old man at 4 a.m. at 182nd St. and Walton Ave.

On Satuday, the group attacked two 24-year-old men at 182nd St. and the Grand Concourse.

No arrests have been made.

Cops ask anyone with information on the bias attacks to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS or log on to www.nypd-crimestoppers.com. Read more..

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The area around Bathgate Avenue and 174th Street is an industrial park, a contradictory term for a place that has more concrete-covered factory floors than grassy fields. Yet the term is quite fitting, actually, in another way: This ordinary corner of Bronx blue-collar life was once home to Studs Terkel, who earned fame by writing about people who were utterly devoid of it.

Mr. Terkel, who died last week in his adopted home, Chicago, was born in the Bronx in 1912 and, according to the 1920 census, lived with his family at 1721 Bathgate Avenue, just south of 174th. He did not mention Bathgate in his last memoir, referring only to Clinton Avenue, a few blocks to the east, in a few pages, before shifting his memories to Chicago.

He once said the best interview question was the gentlest: And then what happened? Read more..

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