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Madison Square Garden
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multi-purpose indoor arena in New York City, located in Midtown Manhattan between 7th and 8th Avenues from 31st to 33rd Streets
Madison Square Garden is a large indoor arena located in Midtown Manhattan that hosts a wide variety of events, from sports games to concerts and other performances. It is one of the most famous and well-known venues in the United States, serving as the home of major New York sports teams and attracting millions of visitors each year.
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Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Madison Square Garden
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Manhattan
- Owned by
- Madison Square Garden Sports
- Operator
- Altice USA
- Sport
- boxing
- Official website
- www.msg.com/madison-square-garden
- Image
- Madison Square Garden (MSG) - Full (48124330357).jpg
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- maximum capacity
- 19812
- Commons category
- Madison Square Garden
- topic's main category
- Category:Madison Square Garden
- date of official opening
- 1968-02-11
- social media followers
- 31900
- street address
- 4 Pennsylvania Plaza, Manhattan, New York 10001, N.Y.
- different from
- Madison Square Garden
- replaces
- Madison Square Garden
- postal code
- 10001
- capital cost
- 123000000
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Encyclopedic overview
Madison Square Garden, colloquially known as the Garden or by its initials MSG, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in New York City. It is located in Midtown Manhattan between Seventh and Eighth avenues from 31st to 33rd streets above Pennsylvania Station. It is the fourth venue to bear the name "Madison Square Garden"; the first two, opened in 1879 and 1890, were located on Madison Square, on East 26th Street and Madison Avenue, with the third Madison Square Garden (1925) farther uptown at Eighth Avenue and 50th Street.
The Garden hosts professional ice hockey, professional basketball, boxing, mixed martial arts, concerts, ice shows, circuses, professional wrestling and other forms of sports and entertainment. It is close to other midtown Manhattan landmarks, including the Empire State Building, Koreatown and Macy's at Herald Square. It is home to the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL), the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and was home to the New York Liberty of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) from 1997 to 2017.
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