Evening viewing: the climb into MSG

To break things up a little, here’s one of Dustin Brown’s videos that he shoots on his BlackBerry and posts online. In this case, it’s the walk up from the bus to the rink level at Madison Square Garden. (If you look closely, you can see Brown — showing himself to be a professional athlete — easing past me and Bob Miller. For some context, since it’s not clearly apparent just from the video, Madison Square Garden is highly unique. In almost every arena, the ice level is “sunken,” meaning it is below ground level. In New York, it’s actually a couple stories above ground, because the arena was build above Penn Station…

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