{"id":349886,"date":"2026-09-18T02:43:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T02:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/349886\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T02:43:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T02:43:05","slug":"forest-hills-stadium-seeks-to-spread-awareness-about-community-care-liaison-qns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/349886\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest Hills Stadium seeks to spread awareness about community care liaison \u2013 QNS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forest Hills Stadium<\/a> is seeking to spread awareness about its community care liaison initiative, which allows local residents to air grievances and raise concerns about issues related to concerts and events at the famous venue.<\/p>\n

Alexa Arecchi, who has held the position since it was created in 2025, said the venue is \u201calways looking\u201d to extend the reach of the program, stating the stadium is seeking to assert itself as a neighborly organization.<\/p>\n

Tiebreaker, which operates events at Forest Hills Stadium, and West Side Tennis Club, which operates and manages the venue, launched the program last year after local residents group Forest Hills Gardens Corporation (FHGC) filed a number of lawsuits against both organizations and the city over what it described as a \u201clarge and disruptive\u201d annual concert season.<\/p>\n

FHGC, which controls the privately owned streets surrounding the venue, settled<\/a> its lawsuit with the city over how the NYPD polices events at the stadium earlier in the year after replacing its board in late 2025. FHGC had also sued West Side Tennis Club and Tiebreaker over claims of trespassing and zoning violations.<\/p>\n

Some residents on social media have accused the venue of creating the community care liaison to encourage residents to report issues to stadium officials rather than the city, which they said would result in fewer official complaints.<\/p>\n

Arecchi, however, said people should feel empowered to report issues to both the city and the stadium, stating that residents can obtain quick solutions to issues by reporting them to her or her colleagues but still log those issues with the city.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re welcome to do both. You can call 311 and complain, but if you want something solved in real time, you should call me because 311 isn\u2019t always going to come out and do that right away,\u201d Arecchi said.<\/p>\n

She added that it is \u201cnot our intent at all\u201d that residents should report issues to her and not the city.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to be able to respond to things in real time, and you can still complain to whatever channels you want to do and take it wherever you want to take it. But we encourage you to use this line as well, because we can really have that direct responsiveness.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

But some residents allege that the existence of the community care liaison discourages official reports with the city. That, in turn, impacts the issuance of permits for events at the stadium, they claimed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen residents are made to believe that they should be sharing their concerns with the Community Care Liaison, they are often not sharing that information with city agencies,\u201d said local resident Jenna Cavuto. \u201cThat means that the issues that are truly happening within the community are not really getting the attention that they need.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cavuto further claimed that she has witnessed a transition from neighbors reporting to 311 to neighbors reporting issues to the community care liaison, which she described as \u201cabsurd.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\u201cAt least when residents report these issues\u00a0to the city agencies, there is a record of those issues being reported,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen they are reported to the community care liaison. I\u2019d like to know where that record is being kept and how that information is being shared.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

But stadium staff have touted the effectiveness of the program, adding that it offers an opportunity to quickly resolve issues rather than waiting on a potentially busy city agency to respond.\n<\/p>\n

Arecchi, in her role, is on site for every event at Forest Hills Stadium as part of efforts to reach local residents and hear their concerns. She said she has successfully reached at least 500 people, who are now in an email chain where they can receive daily updates about street closures and other concert-related issues.<\/p>\n

She added that trash pile-ups and access have been the two most prominent concerns raised by local residents over the past two concert seasons at Forest Hills Stadium.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s say folk are parking a bit further down 69th Avenue beyond the scope of our general perimeter that the cleaning crew goes through; there might then be some trash further down the avenue,\u201d Arecchi said. \u201cFor folks that live within the closed streets area by the stadium, a lot of what we do is making sure they have access.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cavuto, however, expressed doubt about the effectiveness of the program, stating that she witnessed residents reporting an illegal street vendor to stadium staff over the summer. When staff approached the vendor, the individual refused to move until police officers arrived on the scene.<\/p>\n

\u201cLaw enforcement should be involved in those situations,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s not appropriate for a community care liaison to be participating in.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

John Kelly, a spokesperson for the stadium, stressed that Arecchi and the program are a \u201creachable voice\u201d and a \u201chuman being\u201d who residents can speak with about issues related to events at Forest Hills Stadium.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can talk to a human being who is going to care and is going to listen and is going to address,\u201d Kelly said.\n<\/p>\n

Kelly and Arecchi are now seeking to extend the reach of the community care liaison as the 2026 season draws to a close.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cSome people know about the program,\u201d Kelly said. \u201cBut not enough do.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Arecchi can be reached at (929)-712-1045 or by email at community@foresthillsstadium.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forest Hills Stadium is seeking to spread awareness about its community care liaison initiative, which allows local residents…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[310,69792,76525,31689,130747,9,24,63,122,124,123,76527,69794],"class_list":["post-349886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-daily-newsletter","tag-fhgc","tag-fhgc-lawsuit","tag-forest-hills-stadium","tag-forest-hills-stadium-community-care-liaison","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-tiebreaker","tag-west-side-tennis-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349886","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=349886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}