While President Ulysses S. Grant, an Ohioan by birth, is entombed on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and represented on Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza’s Soldiers and Sailors Arch, his perhaps most striking memorial is here in Prospect Heights, where Bedford and Rogers Avenues and Bergen Street, as well as the neighborhoods of Prospect Heights and Crown Heights meet.
William Partridge’s 1896 bronze equestrian statue holds forth in a triangle surrounded by striking architecture: the Imperial Apartments with its Corinthian columns on 1198 Pacific Street at Bedford, and the 1890 Union League club, now a senior citizens center, at Bedford and Dean (look closely for stone portraits of Lincoln and Grant in the spaces between the arches).
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