Political Quotes

“I rise to introduce a Sense of the Senate Resolution that calls on the National Park Service to relocate the Hamilton Grange, which is the home of Alexander Hamilton. As Washington's aide-de-camp during the Revolution, delegate to the Constitutional Convention, Secretary of the Treasury, and founder of the Bank of New York and the New York Post, Hamilton was instrumental in determining the direction of the nation in its early years. The only home he ever owned is in New York City. It sits on a block in Harlem, bounded on the north by an apartment house and on the south by a church. The apartment house is inches away, the church a few feet. For some forty years the National Park Service has been contemplating the relocation of the Grange to a better site. The plan now is to go around the corner to St. Nicholas Park. The park was part of the original Hamilton estate and would be a far more appropriate location for the house. The necessary civic approvals are nearly set. It will soon be in the hands of the Park Service to get this done. The resolution simply states that the agency should do so expeditiously, and should then proceed with the restoration projects that have been on hold. Alexander Hamilton and those who come to see his home deserve as much. I ask my colleagues for their support.”