The grandstand will be constructed in the parking lot, literally steps away from ... Ellis said Ellis Island would also have race-viewing options at the Front Yard, its beer garden facing Koval ...

Ellis Island’s museum is getting a 21st-century makeover, more than 100 years after millions of immigrants took their first steps in America ... When you walk in the front door, that experience ...

If you spent your youth trolling late-night karaoke at Ellis Island, the newly opened Front Yard provides a reason to return. This two-story addition to the 50-plus-year-old property is grown-up ...

The building looms larger and is increasingly formidable as the boat draws near. Even on a gray fall day on a boat filled with cocoa-sipping day-trippers from New Jersey, it’s a daunting structure.

To the new arrivals at Ellis Island in the early 1900s ... they hoped there were only a few steps remaining. After being herded into an immense brick building, the crowds of newcomers were ...