Fed-up Forest Hills residents sue city for taking over their private streets during stadium’s 30-concert season
- CCFH
- Oct 14
- 1 min read
Fed-up Forest Hills residents are taking their battle against the neighborhood’s namesake concert hall to a new level — suing the NYPD over what they claim is an illegal takeover of private streets, The Post has learned.
The Forest Hills Garden Corporation (FHGC) filed a federal lawsuit against the city late Monday, alleging that police “unconstitutionally” took control of the homeowner group’s property on more than 30 concert days this summer to help the Forest Hills Stadium rake in millions of dollars.
“It’s not really a dispute between the Forest Hills Gardens and the stadium,” said Katherine Rosenfeld, a partner at Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel LLP, the firm representing the FHGC.
“It’s about the city taking people’s property without paying for it to do whatever it’s doing,” she told The Post.
The FHGC and its nearly 4,000 members are seeking compensation for the alleged takeover, which has yet to be determined, but lawyers theorize it could be in the millions of dollars.
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