The Parks Department is going ahead with its plans to turn the legendary Brighton Beach and Coney Island boardwalk – built in the early 1920s to offer a haven to the even-then traffic-clogged and polluted city -- into just another part of New York’s concrete jungle.

Never mind that that this will eliminate yet another jewel from the city’s infrastructure. Never mind that residents and visitors will no longer be able to easily bicycle, jog, or even push baby carriages and stroller down the boardwalk. Never mind that most residents, we can safely assume, feel this is an outrage.

The Parks Department – who, as construction designer Michael Greco points out in our story on Page 4, already helped destroy the existing boardwalk by driving heavy vehicles along it – is determined to change this oceanfront treasure into a concrete-walk.

We can only hope that the Parks Department will change course, and listen to people like Greco and others.

-- and preserve a Brooklyn icon.