Forest Hills Stadium told no concerts this summer as fight over noise with fed-up neighbors hits boiling point

Forest Hills Stadium was told there would be no music this summer as negotiations with neighbors fed up with concert noise hit a brick wall, The Post has learned.

The iconic arena in the heart of a sleepy Queens enclave was denied its new sound amplification permits last week following a series of lawsuits from angry residents who said their lives have been upended by increasingly loud concerts blaring in their backyard, an NYPD Legal Bureau letter of notice shows.

The permits were denied when the NYPD was caught in the middle of the longstanding feud between the sprawling West Side Tennis Club and the Forest Hills Garden Corporation — when the FHGC denied the city access to a series of private roads surrounding the venue.

Legal Bureau Inspector William Gallagher told the tennis club that without access to those roads the NYPD would be unable to manage public safety around the stadium, and that the city had no choice but to revoke the concert permits, according to a letter viewed by The Post.

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