Rangers, MSG sued by former employee over alleged harassment by 'Dancing Larry'

A former employee has sued the Rangers and MSG Sports, alleging the organizations allowed the popular superfan “Dancing Larry," who appears on the arena jumbotron to hype up the crowd during Rangers games, to continually sexually harass the non-male members of the Rangers’ audience hype team, the Blue Crew.

The lawsuit, which was obtained by Newsday, was filed in New York County Supreme Court on Monday by Miranda Tyson, who worked for the Blue Crew from 2021 to 2025. The suit said Dancing Larry, whose name is Larry Goodman, routinely subjected the non-male members of the Blue Crew to “a pattern of persistent and unwelcome physical contact," which included “firmly touching and grabbing their heads, necks, shoulders, backs, arms, and hands."

Tyson filed a formal written complaint about Dancing Larry to superiors in March of 2024 after three seasons of working for the Blue Crew, according to the suit. Tyson claims to have not been re-hired after the 2024-25 season and said that decision was directly related to the complaints about Goodman.

An MSG Sports spokesperson, responding to a request from Newsday for comment, replied in a text message, “We don’t comment on employee or legal matters.’’

Goodman, who is not named as a defendant in the lawsuit, did not respond to a request for comment.

The lawsuit alleges the conduct by Goodman, who has been doing his segment at Rangers home games since 1996, had been ongoing for years before Tyson started working with the Blue Crew. The suit claimed Goodman's behavior was “an open secret’’ among the Blue Crew staff.

"Pretty much every member of Blue Crew who isn't a man has this experience every time they are assigned to Larry," Tyson wrote in the March 2024 email reporting Goodman to superiors. Tyson described Goodman's conduct as “a problem we all inherited."

Tyson did not report Goodman's behavior during their first three seasons because Tyson believed it must have been reported before and didn't want to jeopardize their employment. But by March 2024, Tyson decided the conduct needed to be reported, even if it previously had been. Tyson said Goodman's conduct “created an intimidating, hostile, and offensive work environment’’ for themselves “and other non-male Blue Crew members.’’

Following Tyson’s initial complaint, the Garden temporarily pulled the Dancing Larry segment from its schedule of in-arena entertainment. Tyson was then told management had had a conversation with Dancing Larry and the behavior would stop. Eventually, the Dancing Larry segment returned.

In February 2025, the lawsuit says Dancing Larry again touched Tyson, placing his "full palm on the small of [their] back" as they exited the performance area following a Dancing Larry segment. Tyson reported the encounter and was promised management would speak with Larry again. However, the Dancing Larry segment continued, but Tyson no longer was assigned to be part of it. Tyson did not wish to be pulled from Dancing Larry detail and considered it "retaliation" for reporting Goodman.