Peter Waldt

Madison Square Garden Swap: An Inside Job

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Steve Roth's Big Deal
The story on the Madison Square Garden flip in the current issue of the Observer showed how Steven Roth, chairman of Vornado, would win big if the deal goes through. We have since learned that the idea for moving the Garden goes all the way back to 2003, and that it wasn’t Roth who thought of it, at least according to one insider’s account, but rather two executives at the state economic development agency in charge of the redeveloping the Farley Post Office, the back end of which may one day make way for the arena.  read more »