Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop is among those who would like to revive the plan to build a new bridge with pedestrian access of Ellis Island. “Taking a ferry a quarter-mile, or less, doesn’t ...

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Rose Faughnan, one of the first women physicians in the PHS, founded a hospital in Passaic, New Jersey after practicing for eight years at Ellis Island. Fiorella La Guardia worked as a translator ...

Ellis Island straddles New York and New Jersey and commemorates the immigrant experience. Millions of American stories began at Ellis Island; by some estimates, 40% of people in the country today have ...

The national monument includes Ellis Island, the arrival point for 12 million immigrants between 1892 and 1954, and Liberty Island, home of the Statue of Liberty. New Jersey lost ferry service to ...

Courtesy of Jersey City Past and Present. The first immigration station at Ellis Island opened in 1892. In that first year, the new immigration station processed over 400,000 immigrants.

Immigrants just arrived, awaiting examination, Ellis Island, New York harbor. Underwood & Underwood. Courtesy Library of Congress. Arrival and Departure In 1991, Historic Preservation magazine ...

The ticket includes a round-trip ferry ride to Liberty Island from either New York or New Jersey, access to the grounds of the Statue of Liberty National Monument and the Ellis Island National ...

A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Statue of Liberty is at the top of many travelers’ must-see lists. A feat of 19th-century technical engineering and a beacon for immigrants arriving at Ellis ...