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From the Gothamist Newsmap: a child shot at Vandalia and Van Siclen Aves in Brooklyn, a car into a store on Hillside Ave in Queens and a near drowning at 157th Ave and 92nd St, also in Queens.
Six bodies from Air France Flight 447 have been found in the Atlantic Ocean, about 600 miles from the Brazilian coast.
Mayor Bloomberg's daughter Georgina gives back by donating her riding clothes to needy people who need riding clothes.
More city high schools are making volunteer work a requirement.
A NJ police officer who was caught on tape punching a man and then hitting him with a baton was assigned to desk duty.
Former Giants defensive back Jason Sehorn is totally whipped by his young daughters.
Supermodel Stephanie Seymour was allegedly shoved into a door by estranged husband Peter Brant's bodyguard.
And a NY Times reporter massaged J.J., one of Mariah Carey's dogs, for a story about back-up jobs: "To J.J., the massage table was a stage, and he used it to perform."

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By Billy Parker in Miscellaneous on June 7, 2009 6:25 PM

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greeen

I can't afford riding clothes either!! and I also can not afford a horse. Or a stable, or hay or oats or a nice house next to the stable. Georgina, got any extras?

schadenfreudian mensch

"making volunteer work a requirement."

ummm isn't that called "working at a job" only you're not getting paid which means you're basically a slave but that's just semantics.

nicemarmot

Children always used to function essentially as slave labor for their parents, now the schools want to make them slave labor for the state!

schadenfreudian mensch

"Mayor Bloomberg's daughter Georgina gives back by donating her riding clothes to needy people who need riding clothes."

Lordie, this couldn't have come quick enough. I've known so many poor without proper riding clothes it's heinous.

longacre

You have no idea how many Lear jets are sitting idle because the homeless people who own them can't afford fuel. Why does Georgina forsake them?