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So Many Madison Square Gardens, So Little Time

A A A Comments (0) By Robrt L. Pela Thursday, May 7 2009

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Peter M. Storch

Pugilistic no more: The site of the old Garden is reportedly mostly empty.

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"We saved its history but lost the building itself" is how Murray explains it. Others — particularly members of the Latino and African American community, for whom the Garden was a popular gathering place in its later years — see this teardown as a real loss. "I remember going to see boxing matches with my family at Madison Square Garden as a child," Stella Pope Duarte lamented in Latino Perspectives magazine shortly before the Garden was demo-ed. "If renovated, the building could again be used by barrio youth for sports competitions . . ."

Or punk rock shows.