Brooklyn Heights questions BBP expansion plans as alternative BQE repair routes explored
Funding loyalties raised, but park programs supported
A suggestion to suspend donations to Brooklyn Bridge Park and throw financial support instead to groups fighting the city’s plan to temporarily replace the Brooklyn Heights Promenade with the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE) is stirring up a backlash in the neighborhood.
The city’s plan may be terrible, Brooklyn Heights Association (BHA) says, but the group is urging park donors to keep on giving to the park Conservancy while also funding the strategic and legal efforts to save the Promenade.
BHA and the newly-formed A Better Way NYC (formerly called Save the Promenade) have allied in advocating an alternate plan that would spare the Promenade during the $3.4 billion reconstruction of the BQE.