City Landmarking will preserve the historic Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, Clubhouse, grounds, & interiors for future generations to cherish, increase the chances of funding for repairs, and ultimately enhance our quality of life. Breathable space is prime, and we do not need typical condos in a neighborhood accustomed to overdevelopment. If restored and adaptively reused for smaller concerts and smaller tennis matches, it would enhance the appeal of the neighborhood, and preserve a historic icon. The Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, Clubhouse, interiors, and grounds should be calendared for a public hearing ASAP. Forest Hills’ Michael Perlman, who has been at the forefront of many other preservation battles, urges a campaign to preserve the stadium and revitalize it as a concert venue and community center.īased on the above significance and your own sentiments, please write a letter supporting landmark status to the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission. Connors’ reaching the 1991 US Open semifinals at age 39 was rightfully applauded, but here Rosewall reached the finals at the same age.Īccording to the Wall Street Journal, the West Side Tennis Club is considering selling the stadium to a developer, who could demolish it and build luxury housing on the site. Here, Jimmy Connors plays Australian Ken Rosewall in the US Open Finals at Forest Hills in 1974 (Connors won, capturing a third of four Grand Slam tournaments that year, and he was 3 for 3 in the ones he played in).
Among the firsts instituted at Forest Hills: seedings in 1927 first black player in a Grand Slam event in 1950 (Althea Gibson) tiebreakers in 1970 equal prize money for men and women in 1973. The Har-Tru surface replaced grass in 1975, the same year that night play was instituted. Open moving in in 1923, when the stadium was constructed.
The West Side Tennis Club was organized in 1892 and moved here in 1913 (the same year Ebbets Field in Brooklyn opened), with the U.S. The U.S Open was held here for many decades before it decamped to Louis Armstrong Stadium in 1978 and later to Arthur Ashe Stadium in Flushing Meadows/Corona Park in 1997. The Who, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis Costello, Don Budge, Rod Laver, Billie Jean King and Jimmy Connors have all held court at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium at 69th Avenue and Burns Street, Queens.
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