There's no cover and no minimum at the not-so-exclusive club awaiting R&B singer Chris Brown.
The 20-year-old is poised to join the ever-expanding ranks of celebrity community service defendants, bold-faced names who brave mingling with the masses to avoid jail time.
Remember Naomi Campbell cleaning toilets?
Boy George toting a trash can?
Lindsay Lohan shuffling papers at a blood bank?
Brown will likely be next after his Aug. 27 sentencing, where he faces community labor - hard work - rather than simple community service. He also faces five years probation.
Brown wants to do his sentence in Virginia, but L.A. Superior Court Judge Patricia Schnegg is balking until she's assured he will do something physical - like roadside cleanup or graffiti removal.
Her tough stance sounds right to some New Yorkers who think the singer deserved a tougher sentence for assaulting ex-girlfriend Rihanna.
The superstar singing protégé of rapper Jay-Z was left with a split lip, bruises and a black eye after the February beating on the eve of the Grammys.
"He should work at the Sanitation Department - something dirty," said Richard Rodrigues, 29, of Brooklyn.
"But me, personally, I would have sent him to jail. It's unbelievable he gets it so easy."
Kattie Brown, 21, of Westchester County, said the judge needs to load some back-breaking work on Brown.
"He should work on the road," she said. "It's hard labor. He needs to do something physical."
The star-studded list of celebrities given community service time covers all aspects of show business: model Campbell, singer George Michael, actor Kelsey Grammer, rappers DMX and Da Brat.
Campbell did her duty like a diva, finishing up her fifth day with the Department of Sanitation by strutting out of a garage sheathed in an $8,000 silver gown and stiletto heels.
She climbed into a Rolls-Royce after completing her sentence, a welcome change from a workweek where Campbell was assigned to scrub toilets as part of her duties.
George O'Dowd - aka Boy George - didn't fare as well. He swept dirt at reporters gathered to watch his Sanitation debut before swearing at the assembled media.
The karma chameleon was sentenced for filing a false police report. When police responded to his call of a break-in, they instead found a stash of cocaine.
"I feel pathetic," he complained in his orange Sanitation vest. A similar fate should await Brown, said Yamithsu Coriolan, 20, of the upper West Side.
"I don't know what he should do," she said. "But it should be something that's not enjoyable."
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