• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a wall collapse in Park Slope, a suspicious package in midtown, and a jumper down in the Meat Packing District.
• Sentenced to death, Ronell Wilson doesn't want his attorneys to appeal, saying he doesn't want to put his family through another trial
• The school-bus fiasco continues today, with Betsy Gotbaum announcing an official investigation, and the Post revealing that the consulting firm of Alvarez & Marshall got a $16 million dollar no-bid contract with the city to reorganize the routes. The lead consultant there was paid a breathtaking $450/hr to produce a system that resulted in more than 13,000 complaints on Monday. Nice work!
• South Carolina police nabbed the ex-cop who allegedly shot his ex-wife in a Staten Island parking lot earlier in the week. Apparently the two were involved in a very acrimonious divorce.
• Forgotten-NY has a nice piece on the Flower District, a run-down part of lower-Midtown.
• The Daily News gets the award for most disturbing headline of the week: "Dad killed tot, Mom held chute"
• Two things you probably didn't know about the Hells Angels: they've received more than $800,000 from the city in the last seven years as a result of various botched Police raids, and they're sticklers for punctuation.
• Most! Embarrassing! News! Assignment! Ever!
• Streetsblog reports on traffic calming in Chinatown: look at the size of those bollards!
• Have you ever wanted to have public sex without all the hassles of getting arrested for public indecency? Well, your day has finally come.

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