Grammy Awards Returning to New York After 15 Years Away -<br />By BEN SISARIOMAY 9, 2017<br />On Tuesday morning, Mayor Bill de Blasio and executives from Madison Square Garden, CBS and the Recording Academy announced<br />that the Grammy Awards ceremony would be held in New York on Jan. 28, returning the event to the city for the first time in 15 years.<br />In just over a year on the job, Ms. Menin, 48, has ordered a study on the music industry’s economic impact on New York, arranged for the city to underwrite $30,000 in free rehearsal space for musicians, and announced a conference at New York University in June<br />that will examine two of the biggest forces on music in the city: technology and real estate.<br />“Bringing these awards back to the city will allow us to further support and foster the music industry in New York.”<br />The news — which most in the music industry had expected — came after months of negotiations<br />among the city, the Garden, its labor unions and the academy, which presents the awards.<br />“The music industry has never gotten the recognition at the city and state label for the impact<br />that it has in New York’s broader economy,” said Justin Kalifowitz, the chief executive of Downtown Music Publishing and a founder of the advocacy group New York Is Music.<br />A leaked invitation to a we-did-it dinner in New York last fall was followed by months of nonstatements and delays from the academy and Madison Square Garden, whose executives said<br />that detailed contracts — not to mention the scheduling of Knicks and Rangers games — needed to be worked out.
