Billy Joel sets penultimate Madison Square Garden residency concert

After announcing in quick succession the March, April and May dates of his final few Madison Square Garden residency concerts, Billy Joel has now set the penultimate show in the unprecedented run.

General-public tickets for the newly announced June 8 concert go on sale 10 a.m. Friday, simultaneously with the May 9 show announced days ago, at Ticketmaster.com and at the Garden box office the following day. Both concert dates are subject to change if they conflict with a Knicks or Rangers playoff game.

Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. warns that, “Due to congestion during the on-sale, it can be difficult to purchase tickets right away. Please continue to check Ticketmaster as tickets will be available throughout the day.”

The June concert is Joel’s 103rd monthly residency show, and his 149th overall at the Garden. Earlier this year, Joel told media that his 150th career performance at the Garden will end his more than decadelong residency that kicked off on Jan. 27, 2014.

The Hicksville-raised Rock & Roll Hall of Famer has sold out all his upcoming residency shows through April, as well as a New Year’s Eve concert at UBS Arena at Belmont Park.

Joel has earned five Grammy Awards plus a Grammy Legend Award, a Kennedy Center Honor and the Library of Congress' Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. In 2006 he was inducted into the Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame, where the exhibit “Billy Joel — My Life: A Piano Man’s Journey,” opening Nov. 24 at the Stony Brook museum, will chronicle his life with Joel’s active participation. It will include rare photos, awards, instruments, platinum and gold records and studio audio and video recordings.

In addition, the hamlet of Oyster Bay this past Thursday held a ceremony renaming the street in front of his motorcycle shop, 20th Century Cycles, “Billy Joel Way.”

“When I was young, my mom used to take us to Oyster Bay from Hicksville,” the singer-songwriter said at the event, going on to add, "This was always a place that I aspired to be. When I was young, it was kind of like ‘The Great Gatsby.’ There were all these beautiful houses and beautiful areas.”