Between 1892 and 1954, approximately 12 million immigrants arrived at the now-iconic Ellis Island to enter the U.S. -- or nearly 200,000 legal entries ...

The Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration is undergoing a $100 million renovation, which will include new exhibits and accessibility upgrades. The island was used to process more than 12 million ...

Paul Linehan loved the melody of a ballad he performed onstage for years, but the place and person it featured felt far away from his life. Linehan is a 54-year-old primary school teacher and ...

Between 1892 and 1924, more than 12 million immigrants (mostly from Europe) bid farewell to their hometowns in search of better opportunities in the land of the free. Traveling with little more than a ...

The immigrants keep coming, and they're not assimilating. Unlike our immigrant ancestors, who came to America and never looked back, they still maintain ties to their old country, waving their foreign ...

This week, approximately 250 migrants will reach their limits in a city shelter. They can reapply for a chance to stay or move on, making way for migrants just arriving the New York. Among their first ...

NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) – Ellis Island, first an immigration hub and now a historic archive, will now be transformed once again and its museum expanded to include millions more familial records, ...

Paul Linehan loved the melody of a ballad he performed onstage for years, but the place and person it featured felt far away from his life. Linehan is a 54-year-old primary school teacher and ...

When they arrived in New York, they could not contact her uncle, and the family had to stay on their ship for another six days, surviving on bread and water. They feared that they might be sent back, ...