Fort Hamilton Museum is still under attack
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While the Harbor Defense Museum at Fort Hamilton still appears on the closure list by the Center of Military History (CMH), several elected officials have fired off letters to the CMH and their umbrella agencies urging that the museum be saved.
State Sens. Andrew Gounardes and Jessica Scarcella-Spanton (who heads the New York State Committee on Homeland Security and Military Affairs), Councilman Justin Brannan and Assemblyman Alec Brook-Krasny thus far have joined the battle to help save the museum. Another one of the concerns CMH mentioned was the number of visitors Army museums receive. I didn’t have that number for this museum before, but now know it’s more than 14,000 adults and children.
