answersLogoWhite

0

Madison Square Garden

Located in midtown Manhattan, Madison Square Garden is a famous sporting arena.

500 Questions

Who opened in the new Madison square garden in 1968?

User Avatar

Asked by Wiki User

Autorama car show was the first public event held there.

What is the most points ever scored at Madison Square Garden?

User Avatar

Asked by Wiki User

Elgin Baylor scored 71 points against the Knicks in 1960-1961 season. Knicks were terrible that year. I dont know if game was at home or in LA. Chamberlain scored 100 against Knicks, but at Hershey,PA.

Wilt Chamberlain scored 73 at the old Garden November 16, 1962. Kobe Bryant, I believe has the record for the news MSG with 61.

Is the ice rink on the same floor as the basketball court in Madison square garden?

User Avatar

Asked by Wiki User

Yes, it does. The NHL's New York Rangers play their home games at Madison Square Garden.

What events are held in Madison Square Garden?

User Avatar

Asked by Wiki User

Madison Square Garden, situated in midtown Manhattan (New York City), is home to over 300 events per year that scan the entertainment world from concerts to athletic events to circus events and graduation ceremonies. A performance in the Garden is the iconic symbol of a performing artist having made a name in his or her field.

Are professional boxing matches still held at Madison Square Garden?

User Avatar

Asked by Wiki User

According to its website, the Madison Square Garden still has the facilities to offer boxing matches as a spectacle to the public. However, there are no fights lined up in the near future.

How was the first name of the Madison square garden?

User Avatar

Asked by Wiki User

"Madison Square Garden derives its name from the park where the first two gardens were located (Madison Square) on Madison Avenue at 26th Street. As the venue moved to new locations the name still stuck. Madison Square Garden From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG, known colloquially simply as The Garden, has been the name of four arenas in New York City, United States. It is also the name of the entity which owns the arena and several of the professional sports franchises which play there. There have been four incarnations of the arena. The first two were located at Madison Square, thus the name. Subsequently a new 20,000-seat Garden was built at 50th Street and 8th Avenue, and the current Garden is at 7th Avenue between 31st and 33rd Streets, situated on top of Pennsylvania Station. The present arena is informally known to some by its advertising slogan, "The World's Most Famous Arena". The arena lends its name to the Madison Square Garden Network, a cable television network that broadcasts most sporting events that are held in the Garden, as well as concerts and entertainment events that have taken place at the venue."

Who were past owners of Madison Square Garden?

User Avatar

Asked by Wiki User

I can't answer your question directly, but I do know that Stanford White, the architect famous for numerous New York landmarks, had designed the garden that actually occupied the roof of the original Madison Square building, and was where he was killed by a jealous former lover's spouse. A good place to start is to read up on Stanford White; one book of interest is, "The Architect of Desire : Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family", written by his great-great-granddaughter (??) Suzannah Lessard.

OK...here it is (I guess)

MSG was owned by the Madison Square Garden Inc., which was led by Irwin Felt (hence The Felt Fourm which is now The Theater at MSG). MSG was then taken over by Gulf + Western. Gulf + Western took over Paramount Pictures Corporation in 1966, then changed the name of the company to Paramount Communications in 1989. In 1994, Paramount was acquired by Viacom. ITT then got MSG from Viacom...then entered into a partnership with Cablevision. Sometimes you'd see under the words Madison Square Garden "An ITT-Cablevision Company". Cablevision then took full control.

That's the best I can do with the answer.

I do know that before Cablevision purchased the Garden and all of its properties, it was previously owned by Paramount and then previously by Gulf + Western. This period cover I believe the late-70's through the early 90's.

How many square feet is Madison Square Garden?

User Avatar

Asked by Wiki User

Extrapolating from the NYC Comptrollers Office report that the volume of Madison Square Garden is 400,000 cubic yards.

How much is Madison square garden worth?

User Avatar

Asked by Wiki User

Maddison Square Garden is worth $2.9 billion as of 2013

How old was Justin Bieber when he sang in Madison Square Garden?

User Avatar

Asked by Wiki User

Yes he did, his new Justin Bieber movie was all about his tour and his dream to sell out Madison Square Garden and they said he did!

I know it's kinda crazy! He sold out all of his performances. His movie was so good!

What are the release dates for The 50 Greatest Moments at Madison Square Garden - 2006 Moments 25 to 21 1-6?

User Avatar

Asked by Wiki User

The cast of The 50 Greatest Moments at Madison Square Garden - 2006 includes: Matthew Modine as Himself - Host

How long sold out tickets to Madison Square Garden one direction?

User Avatar

Asked by Wiki User

If you mean how long after the tickets were on sale were they sold out for one direction's performance at Madison Square Garden, it was just under 12 minutes when they sold out.

What is the maximum occupancy for Madison Square Garden?

User Avatar

Asked by Wiki User

The seating capacity for Madison Square Garden in New York City, will depend on the event. For basketball it has a seating capacity of 19,763. For hockey it is 17,200. The theater capacity is 5,600.

Where does the WNBA play?

User Avatar

Asked by Wiki User

WNBA Office LocationYou can find this information on the WNBA's website. http://www.wnba.com

NEW YORK OFFICEOlympic Tower, 645 Fifth AvenueNew York, NY 10022Main Number: (212) 688-WNBA (9622)Main Fax Number: (212) 750-WNBA (9622)

How many times did the rolling stones play at Madison square garden?

User Avatar

Asked by Wiki User

my research produced 2 performances in the Madison Square Garden.

When was Madison Square Garden designed?

User Avatar

Asked by Wiki User

Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG, known colloquially simply as The Garden, has been the name of four arenas in New York City, United States. It is also the name of the entity which owns the arena and several of the professional sports franchises which play there. There have been four incarnations of the arena. The first two were located at Madison Square, thus the name. Subsequently a new 20,000-seat Garden was built at 50th Street and 8th Avenue, and the current Garden is at 7th Avenue between 31st and 33rd Streets, situated on top of Pennsylvania Station. The present arena is informally known to some by its advertising slogan, "The World's Most Famous Arena". The arena lends its name to the Madison Square Garden Network, a cable television network that broadcasts most sporting events, and soon special concert and entertainment events, that are held in the Garden. Madison Square Garden derives its name from the park where the first two gardens were located (Madison Square) on Madison Avenue at 23rd Street. As the venue moved to new locations the name still stuck. 1879-1890 The site of the first Madison Square Garden, now known as Madison Square Garden I, was formerly the passenger depot at 23rd and Madison Avenue of the New York and Harlem Railroad. When the depot was moved to the current site of Grand Central Terminal in 1871 the depot was sold to P.T. Barnum and converted into a hippodrome called "Barnum's Monster Classical and Geological Hippodrome." In 1876 it was renamed "Gilmore's Garden." It was an open air arena. William Henry Vanderbilt officially renamed Gilmore's Garden "Madison Square Garden" and reopened the facility to the public on May 30, 1879 at 23rd Street and Madison Avenue. The first arena was originally built for the sport of track cycling, which is still remembered in the name of the Madison event. 1890-1925 The second Madison Square Garden (now known as Madison Square Garden II), also located at 23rd and Madison Avenue was designed by Stanford White, who would later be killed at the Garden's rooftop restaurant on June 25, 1906 by Harry K. Thaw allegedly because he seduced the murderer's wife, Evelyn Nesbit. White kept an apartment in the building. The new structure was 200 feet by 485 feet of Moorish architecture with a minaret-like tower soaring 32 stories over Madison Square Park and was the city's second tallest building. The Garden's main hall, was the largest in the world, measured 200 by 350 feet with permanent seating for 8,000 people and floor space for thousands more. Topping the garden was a statue of Diana which is now at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. A copy is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The statue is 18 feet high and is made of finely wrought copper and is gilded. It was designed by Augustus St. Gaudens, and was made by W. H. Mullins at Salem, Ohio. It weighed 1,800 pounds but spun in the wind. It hosted the 1924 Democratic National Convention, which nominated John W. Davis after 103 ballots. Afterwards, it was torn down to make way for the landmark New York Life Insurance Building. White was a member of the architecture firm McKim, Mead and White which designed Pennsylvania Station which was torn down to make way for MSG IV. The firm also designed the James Farley Post Office which is being proposed as the anchor for the proposed new Pennsylvania Station as well as the proposed MSG V. 1925-1968 The third garden, now known as Madison Square Garden III, was built on 50th Street and Eighth Avenue by boxing promoter Tex Rickard and was dubbed "The House That Tex Built." The New York Rangers got their name in a wordplay on Tex's name (e.g., Tex's Rangers). It was built in 249 days on the site of the city's trolley barns. In 1928 Rickard built "Boston Madison Square Garden." The name got clipped to Boston Garden. Boxing was Madison Square Garden III's principal claim to fame. The building exterior in contrast to the ornate towers of the first two Garden was a simple box. Its most unique feature was its ornate marquee. On January 17, 1941 23,190 people witnessed Fritzie Zivic successful welterweight defense against Henry Armstrong. That is the biggest attendance record of any of the Gardens. MSG III was featured prominently in the 2005 Ron Howard film Cinderella Man (although exterior montage shots glorified it by placing it against the Times Square signs on Broadway when it was in fact one block west). It hosted the only indoor bout in the career of Jack Dempsey. It cost $4.75 million to build; this one hosted seven NCAA men's basketball championships between 1943 and 1950. It also hosted the NBA All-Star Game in 1954 and 1955. When it was torn down, there was a proposal to build the world's tallest building on its site prompting a major battle in its Hell's Kitchen neighborhood that ultimately resulted in strict height restrictions. The space remained a parking lot though until 1989 when Worldwide Plaza designed by David Childs of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill opened. Madison Square Garden Bowl Madison Square built an open air arena, the Madison Square Garden Bowl at 48th and Northern Boulevard in Long Island City in 1932 that could seat 72,000. This was the site where James Braddock defeated Max Baer for the World Heavyweight title on June 13, 1935 that was dramatized in the film Cinderella Man. Ironically Braddock was born on West 48th Street in Hell's Kitchen just a few blocks from the West 49th Street location of MSGIII. Braddock's first come back fight against John "Corn" Griffin was also in the venue. Jack Sharkey and Primo Carnera also captured the heavyweight crown in the 1930s at the Madison Square Garden Bowl. The bowl was torn down after World War II to make way for U.S. Steel and Ronzoni Macaroni Company factories. They in turn were torn down and the area is now home to a series of car dealerships. 1968-Present On February 11, 1968 the fourth Madison Square Garden, Madison Square Garden IV, opened after the financially troubled Pennsylvania Railroad tore down Pennsylvania Station (although the tracks remained underneath). The current Garden is the hub of Madison Square Garden Center in the office and entertainment complex known as Pennsylvania Plaza, for the railroad station atop which the complex is located. In 1991 Garden ownership spent $200 million to renovate the Garden including adding 89 suites. In 2004-2005 Cablevision was involved in an intense battle with the City of New York over the proposed West Side Stadium which they said would be competing with their venue. During the battle, Cablevision announced plans for $360 million in proposed renovations. When the stadium ultimately was stopped, Cablevision signed on to tear down the Garden and rebuild it on Ninth Avenue. New arena As of September 2005, the Garden's current owner, Cablevision, has plans to build a fifth Garden. If the project moves forward, a new Garden would be built at the western end of the James Farley Post Office, on 33rd Street and Ninth Avenue across the street, which is also eyed for a western expansion of Pennsylvania Station. The new Garden, which would remain home to the Rangers and the Knicks, would feature wide concourses with stores and restaurants, luxury boxes with better sight lines for basketball and hockey games, a museum, and a hall of fame. The current Garden would be torn down to be replaced with an office tower.

How much does it cost to rent Madison square garden for a concert?

User Avatar

Asked by Wiki User

if you have to ask you cant afford it