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After failing to get out of committee last year, the New York State Senate has passed a bill that would allow police officers to better enforce the laws against drivers who kill and maim pedestrians and cyclists. [ more › ]

It's Mr. Bigmouth's birthday! Steven Patrick Morrissey turns 54 miserable years young today—to view it in more fitting terms, this means he still hasn't met the right person to die in a fiery bus crash beside. But there are so many other things to be grateful for: tea time, vegetarianism, book deals, and of course, cats h/t Morrissey With Cats). After you peruse the birthdaygrams above, go ahead and spend the next hour listening to a robot recite Morrissey's wiki entry to you. [ more › ]

Breuer's Whitney Museum (1966) Photo: Syracuse University/ArchDaily Born 111 years ago yesterday, the late architect and furniture designer Marcel Breuer is a controversial figure in the history of modernism, credited by some with popularizing the maligned brutalist style, while also being responsible for some of the most lauded buildings and furniture of the 20th century. An apprentice of Bauhaus master Walter Gropius, the Hungarian-born Breuer emigrated to the United States in the 1940s, establishing his own practice in New York. At the time of his 1981 death, Breuer was a holder of an AIA Gold Medal and the 1968 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture. See his seminal designs, all on a map, below. —additional research by Alexandra Danna Click here to view the map. · All Marcel Breuer coverage [Curbed National]

CBGB -- the legendary rock venue from Manhattan's East Village -- may be no more, but its festival is returning for a second straight year, marking...

Inergy Midstream Announces Receipt of Requisite Consents to Amend Indenture Governing Its 6% Senior Notes Due 2020 KANSAS CITY, Mo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Inergy Midstream, L.P. (NYS: NRGM) ("NRGM") announced today that it has received the requisite consents ("Consents") from holders of its 6.0% Senior Notes due 2020 (the "Notes") in connection with its previously announced consent solicitation relating to the Notes. As previously announced, on May 14, 2013, the Consents pertained to amending certain provisions of the indenture governing the Notes (the "Indenture") to modify the definition of "Change of Control" so that the consummation of any of the previously announced and pending transactions (the "Transactions") involving NRGM, Inergy, L.P. ("Inergy"), Crestwood Midstream Partners LP ("Crestwood") and Crestwood Holdings LLC ("Crestwood Holdings") and certain of their affiliates will not entitle holders of the Notes to require NRGM to repurchase their Notes. The consent solicitation expired at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on, May 22, 2013 (the "Expiration Date"). NRGM has been advised by Global Bondholder Services Corporation, as Information Agent, Tabulation Agent and Paying Agent in connection with the consent solicitation, that as of the Expiration Date, Consents were delivered and not revoked by holders of approximately $464.5 million in aggregate principal amount, or 92.9%, of the outstanding Notes, excluding any Notes owned by NRGM or any of its affiliates. As a result, NRGM and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee under the Indenture, executed a supplemental indenture giving effect to the amendment of the Indenture, which will become operative upon payment of the consent fees immediately prior to the closing of Crestwood Holdings' and Crestwood Gas Services Holdings LLC's acquisition of the limited partnership interests of Inergy Holdings, L.P., the sole member of Inergy GP, LLC and general partner of Inergy (the "Acquisition"). Consents delivered at or prior to the Expiration Date may not be withdrawn or revoked, except as required by law. Holders of the Notes who provided Consents will be eligible to receive a cash payment of $1.00 for each $1,000 principal amount of Notes for which the holder of record has validly delivered a Consent. NRGM's payment of the consent fee with respect to the Notes is conditioned upon, among other things, the Acquisition. If all of the conditions to the consent solicitation are satisfied or waived, NRGM will, as promptly as practicable on the closing date of the Acquisition and immediately prior to such closing, pay the consent fee to each holder of Notes who validly consented and did not revoke their consent on or prior to the Expiration Date. No consent fee will be paid (i) to those holders of Notes who did not validly consent, (ii) to any holders if the consent solicitation is terminated prior to the closing date of the Acquisition for any reason or (iii) if the conditions precedent to the closing of the Acquisition are not satisfied or waived. Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and BofA Merrill Lynch are acting as the Solicitation Agents in connection with the consent solicitation. Questions regarding the consent solicitation may be directed to Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Attention: Liability Management Group at telephone: (800) 558-3745 (toll free) or (212) 723-6106 (collect) or BofA Merrill Lynch, Attention: Debt Advisory at telephone: (888) 292-0070 (toll free) or (980) 387-3907 (collect). Requests for assistance in delivering consents or for additional copies of the consent solicitation statement should be directed to Global Bondholder Services Corporation at telephone: (212) 430-3774 for banks and brokers and all others at (866) 488-1500 (toll free) or (212) 430-3775 (fax). This announcement is not an offer to purchase, a solicitation of an offer to purchase, or a solicitation of consents with respect to

With the disturbing spate of hate crimes in New York City recently, Mark Potok, a senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center, joined Josh Zepps of HuffPost Live to talk about the fact that hate crimes all across the country are vastly under reported.Potok, who believes the incidents could be the result of a backlash related to recent LGBT rights victories, says, "The reality is 12 states have approved same sex marriage, looks like it will be 13 before we know it, and I think what's happening out there is, I think the really homophobic parts of the country.... are having meltdowns. They are losing this battle and they are losing it badly."More...

Please say hello to the most expensive listing in Cambridge, Mass., a 6,100-square-foot Italianate mansion just off Harvard Square. The grand six-bedroom home last traded for $2.5M in June 1998 and now asks more than double that figure: $5.8M. Curbed Boston has details. [Curbed Boston]

Audio: G&D (Georgia Anne Muldrow & Dudley Perkins) - "Power" Courtesy Audible Treats. Today, hip-hop, neo-soul and g-funk duo G&D celebrates the release of their new album The Lighthouse with a brand new single, "Power," as well as a concert at Brooklyn Bowl in New York City. They will also jet to Los Angeles for another concert in support of the album at Low End Theory on May 22.

It's time once again for the 8th Annual Taste of LIC, a feasting and beverage celebration to benefit The Chocolate Factory Theater's upcoming season of dance, theater, music and multimedia performances. From its humble beginnings with 12 vendors huddled inside the theater, the Taste has grown to include samples from 50 Queens restaurants, making it the largest event of its kind of Western Queens. In addition to the tasty treats, auction and raffles prizes from Queens-based businesses can be won; enjoy performances by rapper Champagne Jerry and performance art by Neal Medlyn; plus hear toasts from Speaker Christine Quinn and Queens Beep Helen Marshall. [ more › ]

Meet the least significant but perhaps most bizarre victims of Hurricane Sandy: some thirty-odd life-sized animatronic dinosaurs currently residing in the Meadowlands of New Jersey. [ more › ]