NEW YORK, June 26 -- New York City's mayor has already built Taylor Swift's wedding into the city's calendar for July 4 weekend. The couple at the center of the occasion has not said a word about it publicly.

That gap, between a city acting with institutional certainty and two principals maintaining studied silence, gives the paper trail surrounding Madison Square Garden its hold on the entertainment industry's attention this week. A permit filed with New York City's Street Activity Permit Office by Winick Productions, a New York event-planning company, requests tent space outside the arena's West 31st Street entrance for an event of between 500 and 999 people. The dates run from July 2 through the morning of July 4, with the main event ...