Ka cika wannan furcin: Madison Square Garden ya samo sunansa daga wurin da aka gina gini na farko da wannan sunan, wanda ke kusurwar arewa maso gabashin Madison Avenue a 26th Street, a gaban Park. Gidan farko shi ne tsohon tashar jirgin kasa don babban layin Park Avenue, wanda P. T. Barnum ya canza shi zuwa wurin wasan circus a sararin samaniya a 1871 kuma aka sake masa suna "Madison Square Garden" a 1879. (Gidan Inshorar Rayuwa na New York yanzu yana cikin wannan unguwar.) An rushe Gidan Aljanna na asali a 1889 kuma an maye gurbinsa da
wani sabon filin wasa na ciki wanda Stanford White ya tsara wanda aka bude a shekara mai zuwa. Lambun na biyu yana da gunkin tagulla na allahn Roman Diana a kan hasumiyar filin wasanni. Lokacin da ya koma wani sabon gini a 50th Street da Eighth Avenue a 1925 ya ci gaba da tsohuwar sunansa. Madison Square Garden yanzu yana kan Eighth Avenue tsakanin 31st da 33rd Street; duk da haka, har yanzu yana riƙe da sunan.