Madison Square Garden in the city and a roof garden cabaret. The building cost $3 million. Madison Square Garden II was unsuccessful like the first Garden, and the New York Life Insurance Company, which held the mortgage on it, decided to tear it down in 1925 to make way for a new headquarters building, which would become the landmark Cass Gilbert-designed New York Life Building. A third Madison Square Garden opened in a new location, on 8th Avenue between 49th and 50th Streets, from 1925 to 1968. Groundbreaking on the third Madison Square Garden took place on January 9, 1925. Designed by the
I Wish I Could Have Been There I Wish I Could Have Been There "I Wish I Could Have Been There" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist John Anderson. It was released in April 1994 as the fourth and final single from his album "Solid Ground". It peaked at number 4 in the United States, and number 21 in Canada. Anderson co-wrote this song with Kent Robbins. The narrator wishes that he could have been around his family more often for many things. Deborah Evans Price, of "Billboard" magazine gave the song a mixed review, saying that while Anderson "squeezes the emotional