Ellis Island straddles New York and New Jersey and commemorates the immigrant experience. Millions of American stories began at Ellis Island; by some estimates, 40% of people in the country today have ...

VanDerStad writes about the difficulties experienced by Italians who mass-migrated to Providence in the late 1800s and early 1900s ... Mom arrived at Ellis Island as an infant in 1917. Growing up on ...

Round-trip ferry service to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty is typically included in tour rates. The Statue of Liberty is America's most iconic and enduring symbol of freedom. A gift from ...

Lake Ronkonkoma native Maria Capp's film is bringing new attention to a local legend of an Indigenous woman whose spirit is ...

Elis confirmed it made a preliminary approach to U.S. uniform supplier Vestis regarding a potential acquisition that would give the French company access to the U.S. market. Vestis didn't ...

Ellis Island Tales From 1892 to 1924 nearly 16 million emigrants from Europe passed through Ellis Island a small block of land where a transit center was built near the New York Statue of Liberty ...

A feat of 19th-century technical engineering and a beacon for immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, the statue can be admired from several different vantage points around Manhattan, including ...

Chicago’s iconic Maxwell Street Market has served locals for more than a century. But even after a return to its original ...

In January of 1892, the government opened a special building on Ellis Island to handle the massive numbers of new arrivals to the United States. Throughout the early 1800s, immigration rose and ...

Between 1892 and 1954, more than twelve million immigrants passed through the U.S. immigration portal at Ellis Island, enshrining it as an icon of America's welcome. That story is well known.

Two years ago when the Government decided to subsidize painting, particularly murals, it was obvious that Ellis Island was an ideal place for a project. The aliens’ dining hall was a room 98 ft.