Madison Square Garden is one of the most recognizable and famous sporting arenas in the entire world. It is a multi-purpose indoor arena located in New York City between Seventh and Eighth Avenues from 31st-33rd street. Madison Square Garden is often referred to as MSG or The Garden and hosts sporting events, concerts, circuses and many other family friendly events. What MSG is most known for is being the host of the New York Knicks an NBA team and the New York Rangers which is an NHL team.
History
Although today we know that The Garden is located on 31st-33rd streets it wasn’t always there and it didn’t always look like the circular arena. MSG is now the fourth building to hold the name, in 1879 the first Madison Square Garden was built on Fifth
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This 3 million dollar building was able to hold 1200 for theatre, 1500 people for concerts and had the largest restaurant in all of New York. MSG II lasted from 1890-1925 when it was torn down by New York Life Insurance Company. On January 9, 1925 Groundbreaking of the 3rd MSG took place but was located in a new area. This MSG was built on Eighth Avenue between 49th and 50th Streets. This new MSG coast a total of 4.75 million dollars and was built by boxing promoter Tex Rickard. The construction only took a total of 249 days and had a maximum capacity of 18,496 fans/spectators.MSG III lasted from 1925-1969 when it was torn down and the new MSG was finished. The current MSG is now located where the Pennsylvania Railroad Station. This caused a little bit of an outcry by the public about the PA Station being torn down was a little bit of a setback but wound up leading to the creation of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. It is the first structure of its kind to be built atop of a railroad that is still active. In 1991 renovations to build 89 more suites onto The Garden began, the renovations coast Garden owners 200 million
The source that I used, “Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Biography” by Biography.com no authors are listed is a great source that gave me a lot of information that will help me with my reader response essay. I came across this website by entering my search question into Google. After looking through a dozen of articles “Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Biography” had the most detailed information of all the links. This article gave me a lot of information that will be correlating to my search question which is this: What major influences did Kareem Abdul-Jabbar have in his basketball career? The “Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Biography” article had three sections that broke
The multi-purpose arena that I have chosen to evaluate is Boston University’s Agganis Arena. This arena is considered to be the next generation of Boston sports and entertainment by incorporating the latest multimedia technologies and providing the finest possible sight lines and views of the action. The arena is located within Boston University's new $225 million John Hancock Student Village, a 10-acre hub of activity designed to be the thriving center of student life and athletics, Agganis Arena is a state-of-the-art, multipurpose sports and entertainment center scheduled to open in January 2005. A 290,000-square-foot premier venue with 6,300 seats for hockey and ice shows, the Arena is expandable to over 7,200 seats for concerts, sporting events, and family shows.
Baseball is one of the world's greatest sports and is played almost everywhere in the world. It is also one of the most historic games. The main historic part of baseball deals with the ballparks, the cities, and the teams that have been around for such a long time. Then you have the one and only Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox. Fenway Park is the longest standing and is still being used of all the Major League ballparks in the United States. Throughout the 100 years of Fenway Park's existence it has been built, named, burned down, rebuilt, and a whole lot of adding on to the ballpark.
Soon after the fire, legislature decided to tear down the remains of the damaged structure and replace it with a larger and more stylish design. Chicago architect, Henry Ives Cobb, was selected to design and build the second capitol. The government gave him a budget of only $550,000, which was not nearly enough to reproduce the size and design that the legislature had envisioned. Due to limited funds, Cobb was unable to finish his intended design. Legislature was embarrassed and unimpres...
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At first the Spanish Harlem or also called “El Barrio”. An unsafe neighborhood with social issues that remains up to day as one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in New York where the story for the movie begin (Nelson). Later, we can observe the famous subway of the city of New York, that is one of the most used mass transportation in the world operating in a 24/7 basis with 34 lines and 469 stations around the five boroughs(Itzkowitz). And lastly, the Grand Central Station is captured in the film, which is one of the busiest train stations in the world serving every day around 200,000 commuters (NYC Tourist)
The original immigration station building that was built in 1892, sadly burned down, so in its place, a new main building, which cost 1.5 million, is now the museum for Ellis Island. Ellis island reopened on September 10, 1990 and was renamed Ellis Island National Museum Of Immigration on May 20, 2015. Work cited. https://www.libertyellisfoundation.org/ellis-island-history#Origin https://www.history.com/topics/ellis-island https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_Island
Goeshel, Nancy. (September 23, 1980). Grand Central Terminal Designation Report. (LP-1099). New York, City of New York. Retrieved from: http://www.neighborhoodpreservationcenter.org/db/bb_files/80-GRAND-CENT-INT.pdf
Downtown Madison, Indiana is home to many beautiful and historical landmarks. Of those many landmarks, one particularly beautiful item stands out to Madison’s inhabitants and visitors. This wonderful monument is the Broadway Fountain, which is named after the street it belongs to. The Broadway Fountain was given to the city of Madison in 1886 by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (Wright). Today, it is still revered as a magnificent work that the citizens of Madison would do anything to preserve.
After the repairs to fountain were complete, a second re-dedication ceremony took place on August 9, 1980. The mayor of Madison at the time, Al Huntington, said that the Broadway Fountain was the key centerpiece of the community. The park and fountain has great lighting during the evening hours and is furnished with ample park benches. The Broadway Fountain is used for a variety of community events and weddings throughout the year. During Christmas, the fountain is decorated with lights and enjoyed by tourists.
...s Plaza in Cadman Plaza and the Korean War Veterans Parkway, which was known as the Richmond Parkway until it was renamed in April 1997 by the New York State Legislature.
You might know it today as Castle Clinton, the National Monument. It's located in the Battery Park section of Manhattan, and if your ancestors sailed into New York Harbor any time between 1855 and 1890, it's the first building they'd have visited on this side of the pond.
Longer history: It was built in 1914, which has longer history than Yale Repertory Theatre. It was built by the H. E. Murdock construction company of New Haven. It was built after two years of the first Shubert Theatre in New York City. The building is designed by New York architect, Albert Swazey.
The Museum Of Modern Art “MOMA” was firmly established on 53rd street in 1939 in Midtown Manhattan New York, after a decade of moving due to its growth in modern art pieces. Originally Patrons Miss Lillie P. Bliss, Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan, and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. wanted to establish a program dedicated to modern art in the late 1920s. A. Conger Goodyear, Paul Sachs, Frank Crowninshield and Josephine Boardman Crane, whom later became trustees, created the Museum Of Modern Art in 1929. It’s founding Director, Alfred H. Barr, Jr. wanted the MOMA to be "the greatest museum of modern art in the world." Its intent was to provide ordinary blue collar individuals with a better understanding and acknowledgment of art in its era.
As water flows from its jets, which then turn into a stream of water down from the upper tiers to the pool below, visitors travel from all over the world to visit the most iconic landmark in downtown Madison. This weathered fountain has the classic green, white and black patina of age that many outdoor sculptures possess. Located on Broadway Street in between Main and Third Street is a 26 feet high, 35 feet wide fountain with two basins and a reflecting pool (Grimes). This iconic landmark fountain is the Broadway fountain. The Broadway Fountain is one of Madison’s landmarks, which stood in the middle of Broadway for almost 100 years before it was dismantled and replaced with the 1981 bronze production.