Protesters fight BQE repairs during Brooklyn Heights rally

The city’s plan to put a temporary, six-lane roadway on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade for six years while repairing a ­ 1 1/2-mile stretch of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway below got a frigid reception at a Saturday rally.

About 200 people changing “Save lungs not lanes!” and “Better way today!” gathered on the promenade to demand more transparency and community input into the planning process for the massive project, which is slated to begin next year.

“It would be unbelievably horrific and destructive,” said Bill Orme, who’s lived in the neighborhood for 27 years. “This place here is one of the treasures of New York City. There’s few places like it in the world.”

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