Artists Victoria and Richard MacKenzie-Childs are asking $1.25 million for a 118-year-old boat docked at Staten Island.

The Chinese artist’s commentary “on what is unfolding politically and culturally in our time” has a lighthearted note: cat-patterned camouflage. The work inaugurates a new art series at the park.

S tep back in time with Caumsett—a 100-year-old Long Island estate that once symbolized Gilded Age excess, now reborn as a state park. Built in 1925 after a frenzied 1921 land g ...