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CITY NEWS: The firefighter who admitted to hitting a colleague over the head with a chair during a brawl inside a Staten Island firehouse two years ago is being stripped of his job. Firefighter Michael Silvestri will be fired at the close of business Thursday. Silvestri is accused of hitting fellow firefighter Robert Walsh with the chair during a fight at a Staten Island firehouse on New Year’s Eve 2003. Walsh suffered major head trauma. Silvestri’s lawyers said he was suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder relating to the September 11th attacks. Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta made the decision to fire Silvestri based on a recommendation by an Administrative Court judge earlier this month.

BROOKLYN BEAT:   Eleven construction workers have been hospitalized following a partial building collapse in Brooklyn Thursday afternoon. Fire Department officials say it happened at 103 Messerole Street in East Williamsburg shortly after 1 p.m. Crews were working on the second and third floors of the three-story building when its side walls started to give way. One construction worker says he heard the noise and ran for safety."I was in the back and they were upstairs, so I heard the noise over my head, and I didn’t look to see what it was,