Ellis Island presents 21st-century visitors with two options: explore the island’s rich history in the main hall’s Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration or bear a hard hat and venture ...

The island that ushered millions of immigrants into the United States and became a monument to its mosaic of ancestries reopened to visitors Monday for the first time since Superstorm Sandy, adding… ...

The Ellis Island Immigration Museum, which was open for tours until last fall when it closed indefinitely due to damage sustained during Hurricane Sandy, is inside the Main Building.

The Ellis Island National Immigration Museum is housed inside the island's main building, where 12 million immigrants were processed between 1892 and 1954. Andrew Burton/Getty Images hide caption ...

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. Skip to Main Content ...

In 1966, the Ellis Island Main Building was landmarked in the National Register of Historic Places. And in 1971, the island itself was listed in the New Jersey Register of Historic Places.

Become a paid member to listen to this article. The 29-building hospital complex on the lesser-traveled south side of Ellis Island is a unique attraction in New York City. While most visitors head ...

Looking toward Manhattan, this 1930s photograph of Ellis Island shows the copper-domed towers of the main building, built in 1900 after the previous structure burned down. The ferry slip can be ...

Isabel Belarsky was one of the millions of migrants who passed through Ellis Island in New York. In 2014, she told the BBC about arriving in the US from the Soviet Union in 1930.

Ivanka's tribute to Ellis Island "It was very special to bring my children, each born in New York, to the very place where ...