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The 60th Grammy Awards will take place on Jan. 28 at
Manhattan's Madison Square Garden arena, where the ceremony was
last held in 2003, the Recording Academy and CBS Corp, which
televises the live event, said in a statement.
The move to bring the prestigious event, staged at the Staples
Center in downtown Los Angeles for the past 14 years, to New
York was largely championed by the city's mayor, Bill de Blasio,
the statement said. It said the show is estimated to bring $200
million to the city's economy.
"Playing host to the music industry's marquee awards show is a
unique creative, artistic and economic boon to the rich cultural
fabric of our city," de Blasio said in the statement.
The announcement was accompanied by a short film directed by
Spike Lee, in which he and New York musicians including Cyndi
Lauper and Tony Bennett showed off the city's musical history
and venues.
(Reporting by Piya Sinha-Roy; Editing by Bill Trott)
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