The second public hearing of Mayor de Blasio’s monuments commission was a replay of the first, with New Yorkers evenly split over whether controversial statues on city property should be removed.

John Quaglione, a former candidate for City Council, used his time at the microphone to attack the commission as a waste of time.

“Where does it end? Where does New York City stop the pattern of rewriting history?” he asked at Brooklyn Borough Hall. “We shouldn’t even have these hearings.”

But critics of Christopher Columbus argued that statues dedicated to him sent a distressing message because of his harsh treatment of native people.

“I’d rather not celebrate a murderer because of a slightly good thing he did,” testified Roselyn Tejada, a student at the Academy for Young Writers.

The commission has three more hearings scheduled.