Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I tapaina a Madison Square Garden i te waahi o te whare tuatahi o taua ingoa, kei te kokonga raki-rawhiti o Madison Avenue i te 26th Street, kei te taha o te Park. Ko te kari tuatahi he tauranga tereina o mua mo te raina matua o Park Avenue, i hurihia hei waahi poraka tuwhera na P. T. Barnum i te 1871 ka tapaina ko "Madison Square Garden" i te 1879. (Ko te New York Life Insurance Building inaianei e noho ana i taua pa katoa.) I wahia te Garden taketake i te tau 1889 ka whakakapia e
he papa hou i hangaia e Stanford White i whakatuwherahia i te tau e whai ake nei. Ko te kari tuarua he whakapakoko parahi o te atua wahine o Roma a Diana i runga i te pourewa o te papa hakinakina. I a ia e neke ana ki tetahi whare hou i te 50th Street me te Eighth Avenue i te tau 1925, i mau tonu tana ingoa tawhito. Kei Madison Square Garden inaianei i te Eighth Avenue i waenga i te 31st me te 33rd Street; heoi, kei te pupuri tonu i te ingoa.