A suggestion raised earlier in the hearing to move MSG across the street on Seventh Avenue, between 32nd and 34th streets “probably would satisfy us,” Fisher said.
Although current plans to renovate Penn Station don’t include evicting MSG, some state and city officials have expressed a desire to use the permit extension as means to push the sporting and entertainment complex to relocate for what they argue would allow for a When asked about possibly moving across the street, an MSG spokesperson said no such feasible plan to move the home of the Knicks and Rangers has ever been presented to Garden brass.
However, Manhattan CB5 Land Use, Housing & Zoning committee chair Layla Law-Gisiko said Fisher’s remarks about being open to relocation give the community board hope some sort of compromise can be reached. “This was a statement … that had never been made before by MSG, so it is very significant that they are stating they would consider moving, ” Law-Gisiko said. “While I don’t know that this site … could be an acceptable site as far as the community is concerned, I certainly think this is a conversation that needs to be had. And, listen, the simple fact that they” would consider “moving as a possibility is tremendous.
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