Noah Shachtman

You had a case where one of those lawyers was trying to bring her nine-year-old daughter, a Girl Scout.

An actual Girl Scout to Radio City Music Hall, which Dolan also owns.

To see the Christmas show, to see the Rockettes.

And the mom was blocked from Radio City.

Her legal partners were in some kind of dispute with Dolan.

At one point, at least, the total number of banned lawyers was estimated at 1,500 people.

The worst.

He had sold exactly six copies of a T-shirt that said, And so this guy was later on, he was bringing his parents to a concert and he got banned from that concert.

You know, he's talking about to defend itself against its enemies.

And he's got this growing enemies list.

And so since 2018, he's been putting in place a network of surveillance cameras and increasingly sophisticated software to enforce that enemies list, to use biometrics, to use facial recognition, to keep people out of Radio City, out of the Beacon Theater, out of the garden.

Yeah, it's normalized.

It fades into the background.

It becomes, I don't know, just another way in which our privacy is thrown out the window.

It's a former member of the Guard and Security staff.

It's saying that he was forced into doing work that he was not physically able to do and shouldn't have been asked to do.

But as soon as you get beneath that one thin layer, you get into some really wild stuff.

And just to be clear, this guy, this litigant, he didn't want to talk to us on or off the record.

The guy that filed an affidavit in support of this lawsuit, a former New York City cop who worked for the Garden, he didn't want to talk to us on or off the record.

But all of our other sources within the Garden security apparatus, they started mentioning to me this one name over and over again, this one case over and over again.