A Queens Supreme Court judge officially dismissed one of several lawsuits brought against the operators of Forest Hills Stadium on Wednesday in a win for concertgoers.
At the end of 2023, Concerned Citizens of Forest Hills Inc. et al. vs. The West Side Tennis Club, which leases out the stadium, was filed in the Queens Supreme Court. Less than a year later, the judge found that the plaintiffs “failed to indicate that the harm is isolated to only them” and not the wider community.
Three named plaintiffs outlined significant and “unbearably loud” noise that travels from the stadium on concert nights into their homes on behalf of hundreds of residents. They say that for the last decade, they have struggled to relax at home due to the noise that exceeds the city’s noise code and continues past the 10 p.m. curfew.
Some residents supported the lawsuit’s call to cease concerts at the historic stadium in hopes of bringing back quiet to the residential neighborhood. However, in recent weeks, over 25,000 people signed a Change.org petition in support of the stadium and its benefits to the community.
In their request for the community’s support, organizers of the stadium called the lawsuit “frivolous” and defended themselves as good neighbors to local residents. The group responsible for bringing some of the top acts in music to Queens in the warmer months was glad to hear that the judge dismissed the suit.
“The entire Forest Hills Stadium team
is delighted and grateful to the court for today’s decision. We are
also heartened by the outpouring of love from the Forest Hills
community, our neighbors and the more than 25,000 people who have signed
a petition to support the Stadium,” read a statement from Akiva Shapiro
of Gibson Dunn, a law firm retained by the West Side Tennis Club.
5 comments:
Surely this must be anti-Semitism?
Isn't everything these days.
b list bands only
"support of the stadium and its benefits to the community" BULLSHIT it supports Live Nation, Ticketmaster who are a monopoly pretending to be 2 different company's. Some other company's are also involved.
Its the biggest racket in the country the supreme court should have shut them down with an antitrust lawsuit ruling 10 over years ago. ---But no, Live Nation and Ticketmaster have "special friends", the Mayors Office of Media & Entertainment and Local mobbed out father & son I.A.T.S.E unions are 2 of them.
These greedy bastards even take a 60-50% cut of the bands merchandising. That why a $3 silkscreened T shirt made in China costs $40 when it should be around $12. A band MUST use Live Nations employees and services to sell them, no more tour bus bay to tables with credit card hubs.
None of this shit went on under Ron Delsner or Chip Quigley, they kept Cablevision and Clear Channel at bay, and managed to keep these savage corporate gorilla animals out of the NYC and Long Island venues.
Bill Clintons pen to the telecommunication act of 1995 (cross ownership legalized corporate monopoly under the guise of de-regulation to encourage cell phone competition ) destroyed everything.
The business was much better when the local Italian businessmen family's had say in the venues & territory's.
If you told Vinchinzo's men to force a band charge kids $40 for a concert T-Shirt because you wanted a 60% cut emm .....lets say you wouldn't be going home. Those guys were satisfied with the $$ they were making on $7.50 - $17.50 concert tickets, they didn't give a shit about swag merch, they had ethics.
These corporate are pure scum!!
-Joe
No, just Queens Crap biggots
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