Opinion: Efforts to save the hospital campus on Ellis Island are imperative to understanding the largest mass migration in ...

For many other people, New York City is key because they had ancestors among the millions of immigrants who passed through Ellis Island between ... Carry a street map on paper or on your phone.

Now, it's an iconic sight on New York Harbor, almost as familiar as the neighboring Statue of Liberty. Ellis Island is open to visitors but is not yet recovered from Hurricane Sandy ...

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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - On Ellis Island, they're celebrating the history of pizza, and the immigrant families who brought this delicious food to America. From cheese to pepperoni, thin crust to ...

That was how many individuals went through immigration at Ellis Island in New York on April 17, 1907, precisely 110 years ago. That day would be the busiest ever in the history of the famous ...

Ellis Island, the historic processing center for millions of immigrants in New York Harbor, will open a new exhibition Wednesday that focuses on American immigration in the postwar years and up to ...

While Ellis Island has become one of New York City’s top tourist attractions, drawing over two million visitors per year, the 22-building South Side hospital complex is hidden in plain sight ...

Outside the Great Hall at the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration, 775,000 names are inscribed on 770 panels, formed in a semicircle wall facing New York's Lower Manhattan skyline.

On this day in 1954, the federal government shut down the Ellis Island immigrant reception station in New York Harbor. From 1892 to 1924, the facility processed some 12 million immigrants.