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Photo taken at Brooklyn's Pride Parade in Park Slope by Idle Type on flickr

From the Gothamist Newsmap: a child shot on E 102nd St, a bicyclist struck on W 94th St and Broadway and falling debris on Delancey St, all in Manhattan.
An 11-month-old baby boy in Richmond Hills died from drowning after sticking his head into a bucket of liquid this morning.
The same-sex couple who snuck one by the city and were able were married at the City Clerk's Office have had their marriage downgraded to a domestic partnership now that they went public about their dupe.
Animal NY says weekends at the High Line are more like a Hell Line.
The stock market had its worst day in month—the Dow, Nasdaq and S&P 500 all fell more than 2%, due to weak economic data and a strong dollar.
Hundreds of thousands of people marched through central Tehran on Monday to protest Iran’s disputed presidential election in an extraordinary show of defiance that appeared to be the largest antigovernment demonstration here since the 1979 revolution.
Here's video of former presidential candidate and Fox News host Mike Huckabee being interviewed at a show this weekend at Comix.
Improv Everywhere put together a video of their latest MP3 Experiment on Roosevelt Island.
Uh oh. The movement to "Fire David Letterman" over his Palin family jokes is picking up steam with a state assemblyman on board and a protest planned for tomorrow at the Ed Sullivan Theater.
After Al Roker took off the kid gloves and got a little confrontational with Hills stars Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag this morning, Montag says Roker was so rude that she burst into tears. She told Ryan Seacrest, "I wanted to say to him, 'Do you feel proud of how you're talking to me right now? I'm just a young woman and you're coming at me so aggressively and meanly [sic] and mean-spirited.'"
And it's not so hard out there for a pimp when at least you can get hooked up with an on-camera autograph after getting busted by To Catch a Predator's Chris Hansen.

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By Billy Parker in Miscellaneous on June 15, 2009 6:50 PM

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balutanski

hi. did you bother to read the story before posting? it was the baby sitter/day care that was responsible - not the parents. and its a shame that the parents had to leave an 11 month old in day care but they probably had to work.

KiljoyWasHere

"Domestic parnership" is an interesting term for a couple honeymooning at a homeless shelter.

r1b2

I can't believe that parents STILL leave out buckets of liquid near babies. Don't you read those pamphlets they give out at the hospital? Babies can drown in one inch of water. I know, it's Richmond Hill, and maybe I'm expecting too much. This is basic parenting, and you failed.

balutanski

hi. did you bother to read the story before posting? it was the baby sitter/day care that was responsible - not the parents. and its a shame that the parents had to leave an 11 month old in day care but they probably had to work.

r1b2

No, I didn't, I read the blurb above, apologies and sympathies to the family. The care provider should be locked away to keep that kind of stupidity away from the rest of us.

r1b2

No, I didn't, I read the blurb above, apologies and sympathies to the family. The care provider should be locked away to keep that kind of stupidity away from the rest of us.

mocanlagunas

Is there a "Palin go to hell" movement that I can join in?

Spirit of 76

Not to worry. Letterman will be telling jokes on stage years after Palin has been forgotten even as a punchline. She will go down in history with the likes of Gary Hart and Rick Lazio.

longacre

Letterman will issue an apology on tonight's show. Read it here:

http://www.thrfeed.com/2009/06/letterman-readdresses-palin.html

ed_Extinct

Is Sarah Palin for real? Does this woman even know what freedom of speech means? Satire?

Hello?

EastRiver

Maybe the question is do you know what freedom of speech is? It means you're protected from the government. People, even village idiots, are always free to organize protests in an attempt to get someone fired. See: Imus, Don.