The Battle of Brooklyn is back! Rev War re-enactors swarm NYC streets for 250th anniversary: ‘My musket is the joy of my life’

Once more into the breeches. New Yorkers need not be alarmed by the sight of squadrons of Redcoats pouring out of the subway at Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza on Saturday morning — this isn’t the second coming of the Revolutionary War, and the British aren’t back. No, these period costume-flaunting fighters are merely here to party — like it’s 1776. The occasion? The 250th anniversary of the Battle of Brooklyn — known as the largest skirmish by troop deployment during our nascent nation’s struggle for independence. These raring-to-go re-enactors aren’t professionals, either — they’re doctors, accountants, and other working stiffs “who happen to have an ardent love of history,” said Kim Maier, an organizer of the event, which will kick off in Prospect Park at 10 a.m. and continue until the Bri