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Madison Square Garden is New York’s best-known arena complex and the fourth venue to bear that name, rooted in the Madison Square district named for President James Madison. The first two Gardens stood near Madison Square before later versions moved uptown and then above Pennsylvania Station in Midtown Manhattan. Since opening in 1968, the current arena has served as home to the New York Knicks and New York Rangers while hosting major sports and entertainment events. Its construction over the old Penn Station helped spark preservation activism in New York, and later renovations kept it in use as a major venue tied to the city’s entertainment, transportation, and civic life.
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