With camera in hand, he parlayed a chance encounter with Muhammad Ali into a photography career documenting the Knicks, the Rangers and Garden headliners like Elvis Presley.

In 1979, Pope John Paul II visited the Garden, and Kalinsky spoke to him briefly backstage. Later, Kalinsky captured the Pope singling out 6-year-old Geralyn Smith in the crowd and lifting her up by her lower legs onto his “popemobile.”

George Kalinsky, an award-winning photographer who captured iconic events at Madison Square Garden for more than 50 years, died Thursday. He was 88. The New York Knicks honored Kalinsky with a ...

Dimension 20 packed almost 20,000 people into Madison Square Garden for a livestreamed D&D show where the audience could roll.