[HartleyMBaldwin]

In the 1920s and 1930s, the Madison Square Garden Rodeo was one of the biggest in the world. NYC, not Massachusetts, but still the Northeast.

[Olog-hai]

JFTR, Madison Square Garden (the second) was located adjacent to Madison Square until 1925; after that, it was relocated to 8^th Avenue between 49^th and 50^th Streets. Neither of those were near the present MSG, above Penn Station.