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A year after tearing his groin clean off at Madison Square Garden, world champion bull rider Daylon Swearingen returned to the World’s Most Famous Arena over the weekend seeking another 24 thrilling seconds atop a ferocious beast. “Last year here I actually tore my groin off my pelvis,” the Piffard, New York, cowboy told The Post Friday. “Groins are like a pretty big injury — not a lot of people tear them all the way off.” Swearingen, 24, suffered the gruesome injury in round two of the Professional Bull Riders league’s crown jewel event of its Unleash the Beast series.

The eldest member of Generation Z, the demographic born between 1996 and 2010 is just 24, and yet the group’s dominance is already being felt. Last year, they became the largest generation, constituting 32 percent of the global population or 2.47 billion of the 7.7 billion people on Earth, surpassing the millennials and Baby Boomers, respectively. Here, five Gen-Zers talk about their generation, and how they see themselves fitting into it.

A vigil was held by friends and family in Brownsville, Brooklyn for Arsenio Gravesande, an alleged Crips gangbanger who was shot in the hip at a nearby location the night before. Gravesande, 28 went in for emergency surgery, but could not be saved, becoming one of five people shot dead across Brooklyn and Queens in the span of 22 hours. When asked by the NYPD to identify the person who shot him, he replied, “F- -k you, son!” It was one of the last things he uttered before dying from a gunshot wound to his hip. Shooting incidents this year are up 4.2 percent through August 18th compared with the same period last year, according to the latest NYPD statistics. Some of the murders came in areas particularly dogged by surging gunplay. In NYPD’s Brooklyn South area, which includes Brownsville, stats show a 13.2 percent jump in murders and an 8.1 percent leap in shooting incidents. 2020 New York Press Photographers Association - NEWS PICTURE STORY - 3rd Place

The Mother Grain is a photo and documentary project about the rapid rise in popularity of quinoa and is focused on the lives and methods of the local Aymara and Quechua Bolivian farmers, who are descended from the Incas.

An Army veteran who was inspired to serve after the Sept. 11 terror attacks will put some serious brawn into the Bravest this week when he steps into the boxing ring at Madison Square Garden. Victor Woods, 34, will duke it out in the super heavyweight division, representing the Bronx’s Ladder 17 Green Berets at the FDNY’s first-ever International Battle of the Badges.

A once-successful Wall Street restaurateur whose business was 86ed by the pandemic is cashing in on an unlikely second career — sewing one-of-a-kind memory bears for families across the country. Jin Kim, 64, spent her first 30 years in New York City catering her raw fish and rice delights to power brokers at Niko Niko sushi deli. But after seeing her beloved eatery twice shutter — first by Superstorm Sandy at 80 Wall Street, then by COVID after relocating to nearby John Street — the mom of two turned to her sewing machine and got back to work. She now creates roughly 150 memory bears a week through her booming Etsy shop, turning fabrics such as blood-soaked clothing and baby blankets into beautiful custom bears, quilts and pillows, mostly for grieving clients.

A New Jersey dad has spent years and a small fortune to build his own “Ghostbusters” Ecto-1 car – the perfect ride to tour the iconic Big Apple locations featured in the original movie. Lifelong Ghostbusters fanatic Nicky Ferrara, 38, had dreamed of owning the Ecto-1 over the years but his quest for the car started rolling with an eBay find of a 1959 Cadillac Landau hearse that had been stored in a California garage for nearly 50 years.