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Daniel Beekman, DAILY NEWS WRITER
They're the patron saints of lost items - as long as the item was dropped down a sewer grate.
The Department of Environmental Protection has a squad of city workers on call, ready to fish dropped valuables out of Gotham's catch basins for free.
All it takes to summon these municipal Saint Anthonys is a phone call to 311 - and a strong stomach to handle the smell.
"I got myback!" squealed Queena Feng, 20, after a DEP worker plucked her precious hand-held device from a , , drain yesterday. "I'm really happy. I thought I'd never get it back."
Thestudent lost her phone Sunday night climbing out of her boyfriend's car. He gave her theas a gift last year.
"When I opened the car door, the phone slipped out of my pocket," said Feng.
Her quick-thinking beau suggested they call the city's information hotline. "She was spazzing out," said , 18. "I was like, 'Let's try calling 311.'"
A 311 operator transferred them to a DEP secretary who took down Yuen's phone number. First thing yesterday morning, the agency called back to schedule a retrieval.
DEP catch basin cleanermet Feng on 14th Ave., removed the grate and used his truck's hydraulic arm to lower a metal claw into the muck.
When the claw resurfaced, dumping a wet wad of trash onto the street, Feng gasped. There was her iPh
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