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

Ellis Island's Baggage and Dormitory Building hosted detained immigrants. Today, it's one of the purest remnants of the island's abandoned era.

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! Explore the ...

Ellis Island will reopen to the public Monday, almost a year after Superstorm Sandy's swells reached 8 feet and badly damaged the iconic former U.S. immigration entry point.

To see JR's Ellis Island project, visitors can access the hospital building in small "Hard Hat" tours. To watch Cooper's 60 Minutes profile of JR, click here.

The exhibition, “Shadow and Memory: Ellis Island’s Unrestored Buildings,” featuring the photography of Christopher Barnes, is on view at the Morris Museum through Aug. 1.

The dilapidated exterior of one of the Ellis Island hospital buildings is seen on June 3, 2003 in the hospital complex prior to restoration.

Stephen Wilkes photographed a side of Ellis Island that no one sees. Ellis Island: Ghosts of Freedom documents weather-beaten remnants of the immigration hub's abandoned buildings.

With huge state and city deficits and empty wallets all around, Ellis Island—the entry point for more than 12 million immigrants between 1892 and 1954—is about the last thing on New Yorkers ...

I had heard the family stories. Now I was on my approach to Ellis Island, watching the French Renaissance building loom large.