New York Daily News

Screwdrive­r stab

- John Annese Dale W. Eisinger and Erin Durkin

A WASHINGTON Heights man repeatedly stabbed his wife with a screwdrive­r inside an upper Manhattan barber shop, in a horrifying scene caught on surveillan­ce cameras, cops said.

The woman survived the attack.

Jose Castillo, 66, was charged with attempted murder. He remains held on $250,000 bail. LOCKED UP at Rikers Island, Estefania Solano said the hardest part is being separated from her three young daughters.

“Every day in jail is like a year when you’re away from your kids,” said Solano, 28.

Solano was one of three incarcerat­ed mothers who reunited with their kids Monday at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan — part of a visit program being tested by the city.

First lady Chirlane McCray joined the families at the upper West Side museum.

“You can see that these kids miss their moms,” McCray said. “And it’s so important for their developmen­t to be with their mothers.”

The pilot program will let incarcerat­ed women with good behavioral records spend time with their kids.

Solano, who is serving a three-month sentence for grand larceny, said she hopes to become a substance abuse counselor after she gets out.

“Jail makes you appreciate the outside world that much more,” she said.

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