Chris Smith
June 3, 2026
When Brad Hoylman-Sigal was a state senator, he pursued legislation — unsuccessfully — to rein in the surveillance and a budget change to repeal the Garden’s long-standing property-tax exemption, which has saved the company an estimated $1 billion. Hoylman-Sigal, now the Manhattan borough president, was once warned that Dolan might have hired a private investigator to tail him. “The Knicks are winning, so he’s doing something right,” Hoylman-Sigal says. “On the other hand, Dolan is the New Yorker everyone loves to hate.”
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