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Brooklyn Heights Promenade is a cantilevered pedestrian walkway above the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, celebrated for its sweeping views of Lower Manhattan and New York Harbor. It grew out of a prolonged fight over the expressway’s route, as Brooklyn Heights residents and engineers pushed successfully for a waterfront alignment instead of a road cutting through the neighborhood. Opened in sections in 1950 and 1951, with the highway below completed later, the Promenade became one of New York City’s most admired public overlooks. Later preservation efforts protected its famous panorama, and despite ongoing structural and reconstruction concerns, it has remained a landmark of public life and popular culture.
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