The highest natural point in Brooklyn, New York, is Battle Hill, at 216 feet (or 66 meters) above sea level. Also known as Gowan’s Heights, it is located in Green-Wood Cemetery in the western portion of Brooklyn.
The hill is part of Harbor Hill Moraine, a terminal moraine formed during the Wisconsin Glaciation, one of the last major continental glacier advances in the North American ice sheet complex.
The hill got its name as the location of a confrontation in 1776 between American and British troops during the Battle of Brooklyn in the American Revolutionary War.
