The city is about to unleash a toxic public-health nightmare with its proposal to close the Brooklyn Heights Promenade and erect a temporary highway on it during a decade-long Brooklyn Queens Expressway repair project, experts said Tuesday.

“It removes the lid on a stew pot of chemicals, which means they will go right into Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo,” said Laurie Garrett, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and public-health expert who lives in the area.

The warning comes after the city Department of Transportation earlier this year proposed shifting BQE traffic up to a temporary roadway where the Promenade now sits while construction is done to the double-decked road below, a project that could take as long as six years.

“This is an assault on people who live nearby and will be inhaling those emissions,” said Garrett, who first made her dire comments in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.  https://nypost.com/2018/12/18/bqe-repairs-will-unleash-toxic-hellstorm-on-brooklyn-experts/