Actually, some of the best places to view the remaining battlefield are in Prospect Park. I walked some of the remaining portions of the battlefield with my friend, U.S. Army Major Chris Sybert, when he was writing a paper about the Battle of Long Island. I used to live on Clinton Street in Cobble Hill, about 2 blocks from bank described in the article. In Prospect Park, the terrain remains mostly unchanged, and there is a gun emplacement, where a small group of American Troops held off the British for several hours, until they were flanked by the British. You could see how this emplacement, commanding the only path through a wild area with thorn bushes between thickly forested trees, could hold up an army. There is also a monument to the Maryland Volunteers, who were massacred by the British after their heroic stand. There is also a brass plaque on the Promenade in Brooklyn Heights at the site of the American camp, where, with their campfires still burning to fool the British, 9,000 Americans escaped to Manhattan.
