Hilltop Park Site Now
The site where Hilltop Park once stood remained vacant until Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, a major hospital, opened up on that location in 1928. In recent years a plaque has been placed on the hospital grounds to mark the former location of home plate in Hilltop Park. The plaque was donated to the hospital by the New York Yankees to commemorate the exact location of where home plate rested in Hilltop Park. The plaque is bronze and is the same size and shape as home plate. The text on the plaque reads, "Dedicated to Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and the community of Washington Heights by the New York Yankees to mark the exact location of home plate in Hilltop Park, home of the New York Highlanders, from 1903 to 1912, later renamed the New York Yankees." The site was in the news on two separate occasions, in the September 2004 and March 2005, when former President Bill Clinton underwent heart surgery at the hospital.
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