Annual arrivals at Ellis Island grew from 200,000 in 1896 to 900,000 by 1905, requiring ever more doctors to perform exams. These took place after the new arrivals had deposited their luggage and ...

A wall of scaffolding is surrounding one of the nation’s most treasured national monuments this Fourth of July. The ...

Of that isle of hope and tears. Was Annie Moore from Ireland. Who was only fifteen years. Annie Moore was the first immigrant who walked through the doors when Ellis Island opened more than 130 ...

About 12 million immigrants passed through Ellis Island until it was shuttered 70 years ago in 1954. Among them were Isaac Asimov, Abe Beame, Irving Berlin, Frank Capra, Cary Grant, Bob Hope and ...

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. A new $100-million project aims to revitalize ...

NEW YORK - Ellis Island is best known as the location where millions of immigrants from Europe and Asia ... "He was coming with this hope, and dream, and everything, and probably felt that when ...

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.

This involves allocating funds to create Ellis Island 2.0 at our southwest border, not in New York Harbor. From February 2021 through September 2023, over 1.7 million people were allowed into the ...

NEW YORK-- As the city continues to struggle with the asylum seeker crisis, CBS New York got an inside look at how dozens are working hard to get out of shelters and on a path towards employment ...

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.

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.