Fed-up Forest Hills residents are taking their battle against the neighborhood’s namesake concert hall to a new level — suing the NYPD over what they claim is an illegal takeover of private streets, The Post has learned.

The Forest Hills Garden Corporation (FHGC) filed a federal lawsuit against the city, alleging that police “unconstitutionally” took control of the homeowner group’s property on more than 30 concert days this summer to help the Forest Hills Stadium rake in millions of dollars.

“It’s not really a dispute between the Forest Hills Gardens and the stadium,” explained Katherine Rosenfield, a partner at Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel LLP, the firm representing the FHGC, told The Post. 5

“It’s about the city taking people’s property without paying for it t

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