Ellis Island circa 1920 (via Save Ellis Island's site) ... where immigrants' sheets were washed. To renovate the island's other 27 buildings will cost an additional $350 million. ...

City officials describe the Roosevelt Hotel, the city’s main intake center for homeless migrants, as the “new Ellis Island.” But local political leaders are also hoping to restrict who comes.

What to Know. Gov. Cuomo began 2019 and his third term with the inaugural address on Ellis Island, saying "America's only threat is from within" ...

In the early 1970s, two high school filmmakers ventured out in a rowboat to make a 16 mm film about an abandoned space nearby: Ellis Island. Skip to content Skip to site index Here’s What They ...

By the 1930s, Ellis Island was used almost exclusively for detention and deportation. During World War II, as many as 7,000 detainees and "internees" were held at the Island.

Composer Peter Boyer’s “Ellis Island: The Dream of America” seems tailor-made for PBS. The piece traces the experiences of seven immigrants from seven countries on their way to America ...