Neighbors want Forest Hills Stadium to turn it down

Plus: What to know before you try psychedelic ketamine therapy [View this email in a browser.]( Gothamist relies on your support to make local news available to all. Not yet a member? [Consider donating and join today.]( [Neighbors want Forest Hills Stadium to turn down the volume at concerts]( [first image]( [Today's newsletter curated by James Ramsay]( Weather: ⛅ Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. It's Tuesday in New York City, where residents of Queens' Forest Hills neighborhood aren't thrilled with the ampitheater next door. Forest Hills Stadium, a 100-year-old venue that recently capped its 2023 concert series with a three-night electronic music festival that shook the surrounding area, has now (at the city's request) [hired an acoustic consultant to install noise-muffling devices](. Here's what else is happening: - The MTA said service on the 7 train was "severely delayed" in both directions Tuesday morning as authorities responded to a person struck on the tracks at the 82 Street-Jackson Heights station in Queens. - Ketamine — a hospital anesthetic and psychedelic party drug — is increasingly being used as a mental health treatment at clinics in New York City. [Here's what patients need to know before trying it](. - The NYPD said an unidentified man [accosted a 16-year-old girl]( and pulled her hijab on a southbound 5 train last week. - Police have added three anti-Muslim and 20 anti-Jewish hate crimes to its tallies for the one-week period that ended Sunday. ([The overall number of incidents for both groups]( is still down compared to this time last year, when 18 anti-Muslim hate crimes and 208 antisemitic hate crimes were reported.) - The City Council is [investing $17.5 million]( into New York City Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst in Queens, more than three years after the facility was among the first — and hardest — hit during the pandemic. - [Rising rents for shelter and hotel space]( have pushed the city's cost to house and care for migrants to $394 per person, per day, up from $363 earlier this year, officials said Monday. - The NYPD has arrested four teenagers for allegedly [breaking into a control booth]( at the back of a moving 4 train. (The MTA said the suspects never had the ability to affect the train's operations.) - "We might have two dogs that are spinning in their kennel and biting the bars until their teeth bleed, who are so anxious and really struggling mentally in the kennel": Animal Care Centers of NYC said its shelters are so overcrowded that [some animals may have to be euthanized]( because they've developed health or behavior problems. - A budtender who works at the Housing Works legal weed dispensary has [been detained on Rikers Island for over a week]( while awaiting extradition to Pennsylvania, where he faces a 2021 charge for cannabis possession. - New York City housewives, [it's been real](. - Los Angeles and Chicago are both rattier than New York City, [according to pest control company Orkin](. - Executives and "founders" can't stop [networking while submerged in ice water](. - The Hunger Games is being [adapted for the stage]( in London. - [Olivia and Noah]( are the least unique names you could've given your baby girl or boy in 2023. “[I could be inside my house. I could be outside my house. It doesn’t matter. It feels like I’m on the stage.]( - Christopher Jaray, who lives across the street from [FOREST HILLS STADIUM]( More from Gothamist [second image]( [Family of teenager missing after East River disappearance says Instagram dare may have been a factor]( The family of a 13-year-old boy who was still missing Monday after disappearing last Friday into the East River urged parents to talk to their children about the dangers of peer pressure on social media, saying a dare circulating on Instagram might have led the boy to jump into the river. [We Rely On Your Support]( [A new NYC commission is charged with making sure Rikers is closed by 2027]( Two weeks after a federal monitor released a scathing report on worsening conditions at Rikers Island, New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams has revived a commission to help make sure the troubled jailed facility is shut down by August 2027. [Instagram]( [Instagram]( [Facebook]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Twitter]( [New York Public Radio] [WNYC]( | [WQXR]( | [NJPR]( | [GOTHAMIST]( [WNYC STUDIOS]( | [THE GREENE SPACE]( Copyright © New York Public Radio. All rights reserved. 160 Varick Street, New York, NY 10013 [TERMS OF USE]( You can update your [PREFERENCES]( or [UNSUBSCRIBE]( from this list.