What is Madison Square Garden?
[[File:Madison Square Garden (MSG) - Full (48124330357).jpg|thumb|The Garden from Seventh Avenue at the side.|250px]] The '''Madison Square Garden''' (frequently called ''The Garden'' or ''MSG'') is an indoor [[arena]] in the [[New York City]] borough of [[Manhattan]]. The arena is home of the [[New York Knicks]] [[NBA]] team and the [[New York Rangers]] of the [[NHL]]. It also is the site of many concerts and special events each year and a few college basketball games are played there There have been four arenas with the name Madison Square Garden at three different sites in Manhattan. The first was an open-air arena built in 1879 at East 26th Street and Madison Avenue, also known as Madison Square. It was torn down and replaced with an indoor arena at the same site in 1890. The third MSG, on Eighth Avenue between 49th and 50th Streets, opened in 1925. The current Madison Square Garden opened in 1968. It is at 4 Penn Plaza, close to the [[intersection]] of 8th Avenue & 33rd Street in [[Manhattan]], New York City. Was named after [[James Madison|4th President of the United States of America]]. == Seats == The arena has six sections of seats. One of them is not open if hockey is played, because a hockey rink is larger than a basketball court. The other sections used to have different colors. There were red, orange, yellow, brown and blue seats. However, the fans of the New York Rangers only wanted to sit in the blue seats. They did not want to use any of the other sections. They even did not let other fans use the blue seats. For this reason, the MSG does not use these colors today. The most active fans sit in the section 400. [[File:EddieandBenoitWMXX.jpg|thumb|right|[[Chris Benoit]] and [[Eddie Guerrero]] at Wrestlemania 20 hosted in Madison Square Garden.]] The number of people who can visit the arena changes. If hockey is played and the first section is taken out to make room for the rink, 18,200 people may be there. For basketball, 19,763 people can watch. Up to 20,000 people may watch a concert in the arena