{"id":291280,"date":"2026-07-09T12:42:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T12:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/291280\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T12:42:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T12:42:46","slug":"forest-hills-stadium-celebrates-100-years-of-tennis-music-history-in-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/291280\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest Hills Stadium celebrates 100 years of tennis, music history in Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sub-headline watch-truncate\" data-v-7521dc01=\"\">Good Day New York visited Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, a historic venue built in 1923 that has hosted major tennis moments and generations of music icons.<\/p>\n<p>Arthur Ashe won the first men\u2019s U.S. Open there in 1968, Billie Jean King pushed for equal prize money, and John McEnroe played there many times. The venue later became a major music destination, with The Beatles playing two sold-out shows in 1964 and Paul Simon returning to perform in his hometown.<\/p>\n<p>Posted\u00a0July 9, 2026 7:51am EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good Day New York visited Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, a historic venue built in 1923 that has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-291280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}