Ease on Down the Road

"At 9:35 a.m., the house cleared Steinman Hall of City College with about 18 inches to spare. On reaching the park, it was turned around to its intended orientation. Maria Burks, the commissioner of the National Parks of New York Harbor, called the move 'a work of art' in its own right."

In The New York Times, David W. Dunlap reports on the National Park Service's successful effort to move Alexander Hamilton's country house, the Grange, to its new home in Manhattan's St. Nicholas Park.