It was New Year’s Day in 1892 when a 17-year-old girl made history by disembarking the steamship that had carried her, along ...

The tiny melody of a violin, climbing sharp peaks and descending again to lose its echo, filled the halls of the New York ...

His grandmother was a year old when she arrived at Ellis Island from Scotland on Dec. 5, 1903, on a ship named the Siberian.

Critelli, a decorated United States Army veteran, came to New York through Ellis Island. "From Italy to here. I was 8 years old," he said. Speaking no English, he would later get a master's degree ...