Velázquez pushes for Heights Promenade walkway to Brooklyn Bridge Park
A plan to build a vertical walkway between the Brooklyn Heights Promenade and Brooklyn Bridge Park has received a strong push from U.S. Rep. Nydia Velázquez (West and Central Brooklyn, LES).
The time to line up another entrance to the busy park is now, Velázquez says, since the city’s Department of Transportation (DOT) is currently in the planning stage for a major rehabilitation of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE), which underpins the Promenade.
Velázquez is urging DOT to incorporate an entrance to the park from the Montague Street or Remsen Street sections of the Promenade. One idea is for the series of steps to connect to the grass-covered sound-attenuating berm in the park below. Another idea has the walkway connecting to a ventilation building in the park.