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Cantilevered out over the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, the Brooklyn Heights Promenade is a 1,826-foot pedestrian walkway whose chief attraction is the view: an unbroken panorama of Lower Manhattan, the harbour, the Statue of Liberty and the Brooklyn Bridge spread out across the East River. It is owned by the city's transport department as part of the highway structure rather than designated as a park, though the parks department maintains it. Its existence is the product of a planning fight in t...