RIP Madison Square Garden (in 2023)

I was at MSG back in April and while I didn't get a ton of time to explore it, it was easily by and large the most incredible arena I have ever seen in my life. I can't wait to go back and maybe get tickets to a shitty hockey game or something so that I can just walk around the arena for a few hours.

 

Maybe I've become a bit jaded and have been there too much but at the end of the day it's just an arena. No better
or no worse than many.

What made it great for me was not the building itself but the events. For me especially college basketball. Even prior to
The Big East Tournament. They used to have triple header Saturdays with 3 great college games , usually with St Johns
in one of them.

 

The Dolan's have also benefited by tax relief at Radio City. This is a family who made their billions as a quasi
public utility that guaranteed no competition for their cable business of which they took full advantage of
using that leverage to fleece the general public who was stuck with them.

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/30/nyregion/for-radio-city-restoration-a-2.5-million-sales-tax-break.html

 

So if the renovations cost $1 billion, what would a new venue in Manhattan run?

 

Who gived a fuck, $5 billion or $50 billion, the Dolams have the dough, let em pay it.