ABC Wednesday—V is for "vista"

I've told people that I live at the highest natural 
point in Brooklyn, but it turns out I was lying mistaken.
This is it: Battle Hill, now in Green-Wood Cemetery
but at one time the site of a famous Revolutionary War battle.
The view of lower Manhattan from here is spectacular
(that's the new Trade Tower sticking up above everything else.) 

This is there at the site to provide a bit of perspective.
It's changed just a bit in the past 200 years, hasn't it?

[To see more ABC posts, go here.]

Beautiful Blue Sky

Set against this bright blue (finally!) sky
is a Civil War memorial in Brooklyn's
Green-Wood Cemetery—which I visited for
the first time (again, finally!) last Sunday.
It pays tribute to the 148,000 Union
soldiers that NYC sent to fight the good fight.

[I haven't been to Skywatch Friday in a long time, 
but (yet again, finally!) to see more, go here.
Also linking back to Ein Stück Himmel.]