The 29-building South Side hospital complex is hidden in plain sight, just to the left of disembarking passengers headed towards the Great Hall on Ellis Island. Looking at its desolate, skeletal frame ...

This 90-minute experience, limited to just six people per tour, will take you into the abandoned rooms of the now-defunct Ellis Island hospital complex. The compound, which has been shuttered for more ...

Ellis Island is a major tourist destination, attracting more than 4 million visitors a year. Still, much of the island remains off limits to all but a select few. The island’s basic history is known ...

The Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island Tour is a popular attraction for tourists visiting New York City. This tour offers a unique opportunity to explore the rich history and cultural significance of ...

The last time I went to Ellis Island was on a fourth-grade field trip during a unit on immigration. We marveled at the size of the Great Hall and made crayon rubbings of the names on the Wall of Honor ...

Inside one of the most famous monuments in the world is a bronze plaque that reads, in part, “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your ...

On a misty morning in October, artnet News trekked to Ellis Island to take part in a rare hardhat tour of the abandoned hospital there that once offered treatment to sick immigrants hoping for entry ...

NEW YORK — Since last year’s terrorist attacks, tourism has plummeted at the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, across the harbor from the World Trade Center site. Some foreigners are staying away ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Areas of Ellis Island not included on regular tours can now be visited in a virtual tour. The tour includes the hospital complex where immigrants with illnesses were treated before ...

Editor’s Note: Megan J. Wolff, Ph.D M.P.H., is an historian and administrator at the DeWitt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. The views expressed here ...