New York City officials have closed the historic Manhattan hotel that sheltered thousands of migrant families arriving with ...

Ellis Island in New York Harbor served as the principal point of entry for immigrants arriving in the United States from 1892 through 1924, and was used for detention and deportation until its ...

New York Sen. Jacob Javits proposed using Ellis Island as a hospital for “narcotics addicts.” A New York City welfare ...

This 1924 file photo shows the registry room at Ellis Island in New York harbor, a gateway to America for millions of immigrants. Here we are a century later, still fighting over migrants and the ...

New York Sen. Jacob Javits proposed using Ellis Island as a hospital for “narcotics addicts.” A New York City welfare commissioner wanted to create “homesteads” for the elderly. Rep.

Isabel Belarsky was one of the millions of migrants who passed through Ellis Island in New York. In 2014, she told the BBC about arriving in the US from the Soviet Union in 1930.

Untold stories of Caribbean immigrants at Ellis Island 06:56. NEW YORK - Ellis Island is best known as the location where millions of immigrants from Europe and Asia arrived in the United States ...

Ellis Island’s museum is getting a 21st-century makeover, more than 100 years after millions of immigrants took their first steps in America there. ... 2019 on Liberty Island in New York City.

Fireworks worth about $250,000 were confiscated by the FDNY from an illegal fireworks operation run out of a warehouse in ...

Between 1892 and 1954, most immigrants arriving in the United States passed through New York’s Ellis Island control center. For those fleeing poverty and war, the “island of tears” was also ...

Ellis Island, which opened in 1892, admitted some 3.5 million Irish immigrants to the United States. A look back at Ellis Island in this Library of Congress video filmed in 1906.

New York Sen. Jacob Javits proposed using Ellis Island as a hospital for “narcotics addicts.” A New York City welfare commissioner wanted to create “homesteads” for the elderly. Rep.