From the May 6, 2011, New York Daily News.
A brand new visitors center has opened in Morningside Heights at the old Overlook Pavilion, the highest point of elevation along the Hudson River in the area. The pavilion was built in 1910 as a comfort station and closed by the city in the 1970s.
In 2004, the city gave a permanent easement to the site to the National Park Service to rehabilitate the site and turn it into a visitors center for the burial spot of former President and First Lady, Ulysses and Julia Grant. Grant died in New York in 1885 of cancer at the age of 63.
In 2010, 120,000 visited the memorial at West 122nd Street and Riverside Drive.
The dedication coincided with Grant's 189th birthday and Ulysses Grant Dietz, his great-great-grandson was in attendance.
About Time They Did Something With the Grant Memorial. --Old Secesh
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