New York City on Thursday formally submitted its bid to host the 2024 Democratic National Convention, an event Mayor Eric Adams says would provide the city with an economic boost. 

But past political conventions in the city haven’t always gone smoothly.

Madison Square Garden hosted its first political convention in 1924 — in one of the Garden’s old locations, on Madison Square, where New York Governor Alfred E. Smith fell just short of the Democratic nomination. 

The current Garden played host to the 1976 and 1980 DNC, both of which saw Jimmy Carter capture the nomination. The Democrats again came to New York in 1992, where they named Bill Clinton the nominee. 

Only once has New York hosted the Republicans — in 2004, when Democrat-turned-Republican Mike Bloomberg rolled out the red carpet.

It wasn’t an especially popular decision in an overwhelmingly Democratic city where opposition to the Iraq War was boiling over, sparking widespread protests.

Inside Madison Square Garden, the show went off mostly without a hitch. 

“I’m honored by your support, and I accept your nomination for president of the United States,” Bush said in his acceptance speech.

But it was a different story on the streets, where a massive police mobilization led to clashes with protesters, leaving some bloodied, and resulting in nearly 2,000 arrests. 

The police response led to numerous lawsuits, many of which the city settled almost a decade later, agreeing to pay $18 million in damages in 2014. 

But Bloomberg declared the event a success that generated hundreds of millions of dollars in economic activity. He played a relatively low-profile role at the convention, taking a mid-morning speaking slot on the convention’s first day.