Larry Brooks was among us.

Silence swept through a sold-out Madison Square Garden on Sunday night, as the Rangers paid tribute to the extraordinary life and career of The Post’s iconic and inimitable Hall of Fame hockey columnist in the team’s first home game since Brooks’ death Thursday morning , at 75, following a brief battle with cancer

In addition to honoring Brooks with pictures on the jumbotron and a moment of silence in recognition of the “titan in hockey journalism,” the Rangers also reserved a seat for him in the press box, decorating the desk with flowers and a framed photograph of the longtime Rangers reporter at his 2018 Hall of Fame induction ceremony.

A portrait of Hall of Fame Hockey writer Larry Brooks sits in his desk spot in the press box before the Rangers’ game ag

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