Madison Square Garden

Madison Square Garden (originally called Madison Square Garden Center), often abbreviated as MSG and known colloquially as The Garden and/or The World's Most Famous Arena, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the New York City borough of Manhattan and located at 8th Avenue, between 31st and 33rd Streets, situated on top of Pennsylvania Station.

The current building opened on February 11, 1968, it is the longest active major sporting facility in the New York metropolitan area, and is the fourth incarnation of the arena in the city. The previous venue, under the same name (also referred to as "MSG III"), was located on 8th Avenue between 49th and 50th Streets, and operated from 1925 to 1968; it was then demolished after the opening of the current facility.

The two original venues of this name were located at the northeast corner of Madison Square Park in Manhattan. The first venue, an open-air structure, was originally named P.T. Barnum's Great Roman Hippodrome (or Barnum's Monster Classical and Geological Hippodrome); renamed Gilmore's Garden in 1876, then renamed Madison Square Garden on May 31, 1879. That venue was demolished in July 1889, and a new indoor arena, under the same name on the same site, opened on June 16, 1890; closed 1925 and demolished 1926.

Many large popular-music concerts in New York City take place in Madison Square Garden.