Friday, July 26, 2013

Madison Square Garden Is Told to Move
from:  nytimes.com
By CHARLES V. BAGLI
Published: July 24, 2013
Madison Square Garden, home to the Knicks, the Rangers, the Ice Capades, the circus and the “Fight of the Century” between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier in 1971, received an eviction notice of sorts on Wednesday.

The New York City Council notified the arena that it has 10 years to vacate its 45-year-old premises and find a new home, the Garden’s fifth since it opened in 1879.
By a vote of 47 to 1, the Council voted to extend the Garden’s special operating permit for merely a decade — not in perpetuity, as the owners of the Garden had requested, or 15 years, as the Bloomberg administration had intended.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/25/nyregion/madison-square-garden-is-told-to-move.html?hp&_r=1&

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