Outside the Great Hall at the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration, 775,000 names are inscribed on 770 panels, formed in a semicircle wall facing New York's Lower Manhattan skyline. It's ...

The over 100-year-old hospital complex on Ellis Island has been abandoned for over 60 years and this weekend, Untapped Cities is taking you behind-the-scenes on a hard hat tour!

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Victoria and Richard Mackenzie-Childs, who live on “The Yankee,” a 150-foot ferryboat, which is moored in a Mariners Harbor shipyard, have launched sunset tours of their ...

From infectious and contagious disease hosptial wards, autopsy rooms, and other off limits areas, the Abandoned Ellis Island Hospital Hard Hat Tour tomorrow will show off these 100 year old ...

Like many people who visit Ellis Island, Wilkes had a personal connection to it: His grandmother escaped Austria in 1939, leaving through Naples, Italy, and arriving in America at nine years old ...

“I think it would be fine to walk there,” said Washburne, whose grandmother was a year old when she arrived at Ellis Island from Scotland on a ship named the Siberian on Dec. 5, 1903.

Ellis Island: A People’s ... It takes the community of Olean, N.Y., for example, to prevent 9-year-old Paula Pitum from being deported in 1914. Two years earlier, her father, Chaim, ...

Become a paid member to listen to this article. On New Year’s Day 1892, a seventeen-year-old girl named Annie Moore stepped onto Ellis Island and into a new life in America. The teen and her two ...

On this day in 1954, the federal government shut down Ellis Island. From 1892 to 1924, the station processed some 12 million immigrants there. Nowadays, some 40 percent of Americans can trace ...