
The True Tragedy of the Death of Jason Arday
By JULIE BURCHILL
|This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will seek to correct any errors, mis-categorizations or other problems introduced during transfer.

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Now that the city’s experience of baseball’s All-Star Game has come and gone, is New York in a position to host a future NBA or NHL All-Star Game in Brooklyn or Manhattan? If you take Mayor Bloomberg at his word, a new arena in Brooklyn for Bruce Ratner’s Nets is a go. But Cablevision’s James Dolan is not playing ball with the city. In March, a spokesman for Madison Square Garden, Barry Watkins, announced that the Garden would undergo a renovation of its existing building — instead of incorporating itself with the planned Moynihan Station Project on Eighth Avenue, right across the street.

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|Now that the city’s experience of baseball’s All-Star Game has come and gone, is New York in a position to host a future NBA or NHL All-Star Game in Brooklyn or Manhattan? If you take Mayor Bloomberg at his word, a new arena in Brooklyn for Bruce Ratner’s Nets is a go. But Cablevision’s James Dolan is not playing ball with the city. In March, a spokesman for Madison Square Garden, Barry Watkins, announced that the Garden would undergo a renovation of its existing building — instead of incorporating itself with the planned Moynihan Station Project on Eighth Avenue, right across the street.
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