New board may end Forest Hills Stadium lawsuits
/A years-long legal battle between Forest Hills Stadium and its neighbors may well soon come to an end after the co-op board that brought the lawsuits was unseated in an election last week.
Read MoreA years-long legal battle between Forest Hills Stadium and its neighbors may well soon come to an end after the co-op board that brought the lawsuits was unseated in an election last week.
Read MoreA battle is brewing within the Forest Hills Gardens Corporation, a wealthy suburban enclave nestled in Central Queens that has been locked in a legal fight with Forest Hills Stadium over concert noise and other alleged chaos brought about by the shows.
Read MoreA group of Queens residents is moving their ongoing fight against Forest Hills Stadium to federal court with a new lawsuit directed at the city.
Read MoreForest Hills Stadium violated the city’s noise laws multiple times during the three-day music festival All Things Go over the weekend, which ended in a disaster when the venue abruptly cut off the festival’s headliner before the end of her set.
Read MoreConcert-goers and Forest Hills Stadium are celebrating after the city cleared the way for the show to go on at the Queens venue after a denied permit amid an ongoing local dispute threatened to derail the summer concert season. But how long that greenlight will stay up remains to be seen.
Read MoreQueens Borough President Donovan Richards wants the city to get the Forest Hills Stadium concert season back on track after a permitting decision made by the NYPD last week cast it into doubt.
Read MoreThe summer concert season at Queens Forest Hills Stadium was cast into doubt this week after the NYPD said they wouldn’t issue permits or police the streets around the controversial music venue this year.
Read MoreResidents of Forest Hills Gardens filed an appeal in their lawsuit against the popular stadium that sits inside their private neighborhood last week as they look to reverse a Queens judge’s decision to toss out most of their complaints.
Read MoreA Queens judge this week dismissed a bulk of a lawsuit filed by a group of residents against Forest Hills Stadium, leaving the locals with a narrow lane to prove their case.
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Read MoreA Queens judge this week dropped one of two lawsuits brought by separate groups of Central Queens locals against Forest Hills Stadium, the concert venue some residents have alleged has become a nuisance in the private neighborhood of Forest Hills Gardens in recent years.
Read MoreSeveral months after a judge ordered the operators of Forest Hills Stadium to do a better job monitoring the sound coming out of the music venue, some residents nearby say the disturbances continue. But as the concert season moves through the summer, others in the neighborhood say the stadium has become an even more vital member of the Central Queens community.
Read MoreA Queens judge ordered the popular Forest Hills Stadium and its owner, the West Side Tennis Club, to monitor concert sound levels and control trespassing this concert season, granting relief to some Forest Hills residents who have complained of window-shaking noise and other nuisances stemming from the recently revived stadium.
Read MoreIt is likely the concert season at Forest Hills Stadium will start on time this year, after a Queens judge ruled against a group of locals hoping to at least delay the start of concert season while the court considers their allegations that the venue has lowered quality of life in the residential neighborhood.
Read MoreAfter a brief reprieve during the winter months, residents of Forest Hills Gardens say that with concerts set to soon return to Forest Hills Stadium so too will the noise and other irritants they are fighting to address in two separate, ongoing lawsuits.
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