Blas statue panel to get on with it

A city panel examining statues seen by some as glorifying undeserving historical figures will hold its first public hearing next week.

The Mayoral Advisory Commission on City Art, Monuments, and Markers will meet Nov. 17 in Queens. Additional meetings will be held in the other four boroughs.

Mayor de Blasio appointed an 18member commission in September to develop guidelines for addressing monuments that some believe are inconsistent with the city’s values.

The panel was convened amid protests over Confederate monuments around the country.

Some New York activists say the towering statue of Christopher Columbus (left) at the southwest corner of Central Park should go, noting that the explorer who discovered America also slaughtered and enslaved people in the Caribbean.

Italian-American groups have rallied around the Columbus Circle statue as a source of ethnic pride.

Among other monuments attracting controversy include:

George Washington, because the father of our country owned slaves.

Benjamin Franklin, who also was a slave owner.

Theodore Roosevelt, whose statue outside the Museum of Natural History shows him on a horse flanked by smaller Black and Native American figures.