By Elise Knutsen 9/08/11 2:57pm

This Old House

Haminton Grange

Uptown House of Original Gentrifier Alexander Hamilton to Reopen

Poor Alexander Hamilton. The only house he ever owned, Hamilton Grange, has been uprooted and moved not once but twice since its original construction in Upper Manhattan. Hopefully this time, however, the first Treasury secretary’s home has found a permanent home of its own.

The building, a national landmark, was closed in 2006, and ever so carefully moved to St. Nicholas Park. And, in news that will surely excite the history buffs among you, Read More

By Steve Cohen 9/14/09 8:07pm

Civility in Modern Political Life

The civility of our political discourse was not helped the other night when South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson called President Obama a liar on the floor of the Congress. Fortunately, his outburst was followed by his rapid apology and the President’s quick acceptance of that apology. I would like to think that the follow-up may Read More

By Staff 11/07/06 11:41pm

The Finale: Spitzer’s Speech

Eliot Spitzer was the last to speak here tonight, and it was his speech that made the greatest reach towards grandeur.

“Today was not a victory of one candidate or one Party but of all those irrepressible optimists who have dreamed of a resurgent New York,” said Spitzer, who vowed to work to make Read More

By Staff 9/16/05 5:06pm

“Post Poker” Poker: The Final Showdown

One $10 bill–featuring former front-page New York Post mascot Alexander Hamilton–hangs in the balance. Given the paper’s switch to the billowing Stars and Stripes, maybe we should have made the jackpot a 37-cent stamp. But here we are: After four days of our head-to-head scratch-off competition, two rounds have gone to the Media Read More

By James Chace 5/10/04 12:00am

A Quintessential New Yorker, And a Consummate Realist

Alexander Hamilton , by Ron Chernow. The Penguin Press, 818 pages, $35.

“I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.” This sentiment, which Ron Chernow borrows as an epigraph for his engrossing biography of the most brilliant and charismatic of the Founders, reveals Alexander Read More

By Elon R. Green 2/02/04 12:00am

Eight Day Week

Wednesday 28th

Fashion Week nips at our heels like a terrier, and it don’t look pretty, sister girlfriends. But some people just can’t wait to get crackin’: Diane von Furstenberg -the Susan Sontag of the fashion set-winds herself into a wrap dress and shows up at the launch party for Café Bohême (a coffee-vodka Read More

By Richard Brookhiser 1/11/99 12:00am

Dear Senator: Hamilton Had the Answers

Dear Senator Moynihan:

Soon after President Bill Clinton was impeached, you announced that you were reading the Federalist Papers . This meant you were reading primarily the words of Alexander Hamilton, who conceived the series and wrote two-thirds of the essays, including all those dealing with the Presidency. They ran in New York newspapers, like Read More

By David Michaelis 6/29/98 12:00am

Tolerance Hostility and Guns: A New York Friendship

A Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr , by Arnold A. Rogow. Hill and Wang, 351 pages, $27.50.

One hundred and ninety-four years ago, long before schoolchildren found less elaborate ways to unleash aggression with guns, two rival New York politicians met each other at a discreetly hidden dueling ground in Weehawken, N.J. There, Read More