- The NTSB will conduct a sweeping investigation of the discount bus industry, in the aftermath of the deadly Bronx bus crash. Sen. Chuck Schumer “characterized the review as likely to reshape the business.” (NYT)
- Opening statements scheduled today in the 9th Precinct rape trial (WABC).
- Sheldon Silver and Andrew Cuomo are in agreement on ethics bill (Daily News).
- Girls Prep expansion hearing is relatively harmonious (DNA Info).
- First Houses, America’s original public housing development, is showing its age (City Limits).
- The new wave of Russian immigrants see the world very differently than their “pinko predecessors from the Lower East Side.” (Tablet)
- Looking ahead to CB3’s next bar brawl: Superdive, the sequel (EV Grieve).
- Shocker! 10003 is the city’s booziest zip code (Post).
- New York Magazine profiles the city’s “next new neighborhoods,”  including four “micro-neighborhoods.” On Orchard Street below Broome, the editors say, “the Lower East Side’s art-fashion-nightlife nexus seeps into Chinatown.” (NYM)
- Longboard Loft opens on Allen Street (Bowery Boogie).
- City shutters longtime Cooper Square newspaper vendor (Daily News).
