Above the train hall, the round drum of the arena: the bowl in blue and orange, the cable ceiling, the scoreboard cube, a game on the floor, the works around the concourse.
The current Madison Square Garden, the fourth to carry the name, opened in 1968 above Penn Station on the site of the demolished original Pennsylvania Station, designed by Charles Luckman. It is home to the Knicks and the Rangers. Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier fought there in March 1971, and Willis Reed limped onto its floor for game seven of the 1970 NBA Finals.
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The circular drum on Seventh Avenue, the bowl of orange and blue seats climbing to the suspended cable roof, the four sided scoreboard over centre court, the hardwood with its lines, the bridges hanging under the ceiling. Mood: fourth quarter, two minutes. Everything is procedural geometry with painted surfaces; nothing is a scan or a photograph. The room is an interpretation, and it hangs the New Yorkers the census recorded at this place first.