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New Developments in the News

MAY 17, 2010

The Garden gets refreshed; Open air bus tours hit the mute button.

A full-on renovation is underway for Madison Square Garden. The big fix-up will reportedly carry a price tag of between $775 and $850 million and will include an update of lower bowl seats and event-level suites, new locker rooms, dressing rooms for entertainers as well as a new, wider sixth-floor concourse, an open-air, two-level Seventh Avenue lobby and 18 revamped ninth-floor suites. Renovations will happen in phases to avoid disrupting the Garden’s packed calendar of seasonal sports and other events, with the final phase to be rolled out after October of 2013.

The sound of tour bus loudspeakers pointing out city highlights will become a thing of the past when open-air sightseeing buses begin to phase in headphones to replace the loudspeakers next year. The city council recently passed legislation that requires operators to complete the switch to closed headphone systems over the next five years in order to cut down on the “constant, pervasive noise” that has caused neighborhood residents along tour routes to complain.

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