Tag: New-York Historical Society

Madison Square Park officially opened to the public in 1847. Edwin Levick/Archive Photos, via Getty Images The Flatiron Building, completed in 1902, anchors Madison Square Park to the south. Detroit Publishing Company, via Library of Congress One of the early buildings in Madison Square Park was a home for juvenile delinquents. via New York Public Library A view from 1896 of Fifth Avenue at 26th Street, showing Delmonico’s Restaurant. via New York Public Library The first Madison Square Garden, circa 1879-1890. via Museum of the City of New York Interior of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, circa 1895. Brown Brothers, via Museum of the City of New York Stanford White designed the second Madison Square Garden, a Moorish-Venetian-Renaissance-style building. Frank M. Ingalls/The New York Historical Society, via Getty Images The 1913 National Horse Show at Madison Square Garden. H.C. White Company, via Library of Congress Madison Square Park, today, with the MetLife Tower, center left. Karsten Moran for The New York Times “Danny’s vision and food have been integral to making Madison Square Park what it is today,” said Keats Myer of the Madison Square Park Conservancy about Danny Meyer, the restaurateur who, in the early aughts, established the original Shake Shack in the park, which drew New Yorkers and tourists to the area once again.