Discover the natural beauty of New York State's national parks. Explore monuments and trails, and immerse yourself in history ...

Two weeks before Eugene Mentz arrived in Avigliano, Italy in September, he played the organ for the Italian language Mass at ...

On Nov. 12, 1954, a main entry point into the United States was closed as immigration station, detention center.

The Park Service described a typical day at the immigration station: “Immigrants came face to face with inspectors, interpreters, nurses, doctors, social workers, and many others. As a large federal ...

Isabel Belarsky was one of the millions of people who were processed on Ellis Island before its immigration facility closed in 1954. In 2014, she told the BBC about reaching the gateway to the US ...

Stretching back to the Dutch colonial settlement in the early seventeenth century, Ellis Island became a place known for both heartache and joy, processing over 12 million immigrants to the United ...

Mental health professionals say many Long Island immigrants and transgender people are anxious and afraid about their futures after the election of Donald Trump as president, amid his vows of ...

"It's scary times," said Maribel Hernández Rivera, his wife and an immigration attorney by trade. She's also the director of policy and government affairs for the ACLU, whose affiliate helped ...