OT: Article - What If NYC Evicted Madison Square Garden?

[pepband99]

Who own da rangers?

Awesome post / handle. You’re a mess.

 

[Drame]

Tear MSG down. Its a horrible building. Why would you puta basketball arena on top of the busiest train stain in America. World class cities should have the best travel terminals and sports arenas. Not the worst. The fans make MSG great, not the building.

 

[DarthGrumpy]

Tear MSG down. Its a horrible building. Why would you puta basketball arena on top of the busiest train stain in America. World class cities should have the best travel terminals and sports arenas. Not the worst. The fans make MSG great, not the building.

Building large stadiums/arenas/convention centers over train line is not unusual as the land is usually 'cheap' (especially when public entities are willing to throw money into it to spure redevelopment of a neighorhood) for building that don't generate as much money as a business skyscraper and/or condo and are also lighter than them. That said, most are built on extra space that a rail yard no longer needs, such as Safeco in Seattle, Coors in Denver, Rogers in Toronto, and Camden Yards in Baltimore, and not on top of an active rail line, such as MSG in NYC (Penn Station) and the TD Garden in Boston (North Station).