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 ...

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.

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.

ABOUT US The Ellis Island Honors Society (EIHS) was founded on the conviction that the diversity of the American people is what makes this nation great.

Ellis Island, an iconic entry point to America, was also a place of detainment and deportation.

Julia Schlaepfer discusses filming 1923's harrowing Ellis Island scene and how an intimacy coordinator helped her navigate the grueling 8-hour shoot.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is beginning 2019 and his third term with an inaugural address on Ellis Island.

Casting himself as a key figure opposing President Trump, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo invoked the name of Trump’s immigrant grandfather in a Tuesday speech at Ellis Island. “This is the harbor ...