Since opening 100 years ago, Forest Hills Stadium has played host to both racket royalty and music greats.
, winning the inaugural US Open in 1968, as an amateur who had to forfeit his winnings to losing finalist Tom Okker and Aussie great Rod Laver completing two Grand Slams in 1962 and 1969.Bettmann Archive/Getty Images
In addition to the elite tennis players of the world, Forest Hills Stadium also hosted some of the biggest music acts of the ’60s and ’70s — from the Beatles, who famously landed in a helicopter in 1964, toThat second Dylan concert, though, might never have happened. By 2010, the storied stadium was on the verge of going condo.
“It was holy ground,” he said “I tried to show how it would be more profitable to restore it and benefit our community and city in the long term,” said the fifth-generation Forest Hills resident. “It felt like a ruin in Rome, like the Colosseum … Because it’s located in Queens, sometimes it doesn’t get all of the attention or the full appreciation.”
Since reopening in 2013, Forest Hills Stadium has hosted everyone from Ed Sheeran to Robert Plant and Sheryl Crow.Forest Hills Stadium historian/preservationist Michael Perlman was there to see Zac Brown Band in 2014.
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