|
|
Article: The Faith Report: The life and times of Madison Square.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Real Estate Weekly
- Article date:
- August 30, 2000
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2000 Hagedorn Publication. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Madison Square is located between 23rd and 26th Streets and Fifth and Madison Avenues. Madison Avenue, in fact, begins at 23rd Street and Broadway cuts across Fifth Avenue at the southwest corner of the Square. At that corner, the famous phrase, "23 Skidoo" was coined, for the breeze is brisk there. Many women in the old days found it difficult to cross, for they ran the risk of having their skirts blown upward and their ankles exposed.
In the beginning, the square was a marsh. It progressed to a potter's field, a military arsenal and parade ground, a reformatory, and after the House of Refuge for the Society for the Protection of Juvenile Delinquents burned down ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:
|
|
Article: MSG net throws high, hard one at Mets.(Madison ...
Daily Variety;
October 28, 2004 ;
700+ words
...Chuck Dolan's Madison Square Garden Networks has sued the New York Mets to stop the team from ... sister regional Fox Sports Net New York on Nov. 1, 2005. Sterling ... with Time Warner Cable of New York about a renewal of MSG and ...
|
|