Dolan probes prober

SLA man tailed

Madison Square Garden owner James Dolan reportedly hired a private eye to shadow a State Liquor Authority investigator amid the agency’s look at the venue’s liquor license.

Several Dolanowned properties were slapped with administrative charges after facialrecognition tech- nology was used to identify and deny entry to lawyers working on litigation against him.

The exclusion prompted the SLA to assign investigator Charles Stravalle to determine if MSG can keep serving booze at Knicks and Rangers games, The New York Times reported. Banning select people could violate state beverage laws requiring establishments to admit the general public.

According to the Times, Stravalle called the NYPD after he was tailed for more than 100 miles by a black Chevrolet, right up to his return home in Queens, where the Chevy driver remained camped out with a camera pointed toward Stravalle’s house.

Police later pulled over the driver, who was a private investigator.

MSG Entertainment acknowledged it had hired a P.I. to tail Stravalle, which it said was “a common and lawful practice,” according to court papers filed last week.

In addition to MSG, the

SLA could also yank liquor licenses for Radio City Music Hall and the Beacon Theater, also owned by Dolan (inset).

In response to the four violations filed against him, Dolan filed a petition in Manhattan Supreme Court on March 11 asking a judge to halt the SLA offenses, calling the enforcement “an abuse of power.” “This gangster-like governmental organization has finally run up against an entity that won’t cower in the face of their outrageous abuses,” Dolan told The Post last week.

“While others that have been subject to this harassment may have been forced into submission or silence, we are taking a stand on behalf of our fans and the many small businesses who have long been subject to the SLA’s corruption.”

In the fiery 47-page filing, his corporate entity claimed the SLA’s “improper actions” were “an assault on not only MSG, but also all of its fans, who will be deprived of the full MSG experience if the SLA gets its way and strips MSG of its right to serve alcohol at its venues.”

In a statement, MSG cocounsel Jim Walden said, “The SLA is . . . a bureaucracy out of control. We have found credible evidence of actual collusion, with the SLA being weaponized to do the bidding of plantiffs’ lawyers.”