The Ellis Island Immigration Museum opened in 1990 and attracts 3 million visitors each year.
The island, today a state park, used to be the West Coast twin of Ellis Island in the east, and is the place where America showed a very different face to yellow newcomers than to white ones.
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The great picture attached shows my brother at Windows of the World looking out over the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, the same site our grandparents viewed as they entered this great country 80 years ago.
ET, Bush will address the nation from Ellis Island, White House officials said.
Whereas Governors Island may yet end up in the hands of developers, New York is much less nonchalant about the future of Ellis Island.
He had dibs on the head of the line: Aramark handles Ellis Island's concessions, audio tours and special-event services for the U.S. government.
Unless you are one of the first Americans, a Native American, we are all descended from folks who came from someplace else -- whether they arrived on the Mayflower or on a slave ship, whether they came through Ellis Island or crossed the Rio Grande.
And as the Iron Curtain descended, they boarded a boat for America and arrived at Ellis Island, past the Statue of Liberty.
Originally a beacon of freedom and opportunity to the immigrants making their way to Ellis Island it continues to serve as a symbol of freedom and enlightenment for the whole world.
Somewhere between Ellis Island and the car factories of Detroit (or nowadays between the Rio Grande and a bungalow in Riverside) the newcomers are Americanised.
To add to New York's island woes, on April 1st a Supreme Court arbitrator recommended that a 170-year dispute with New Jersey over control of Ellis Island, the immigrant gateway that New York has long thought of as its own, should be settled by dividing the island in two with New Jersey getting most of the land.
Mattis and Hochberg owned a half-dozen photos by the pioneering documentarian Lewis Hine, best known for his shots of Ellis Island and New York laborers in the 1920s and 1930s.
In one scene, as the boater-hatted Stavros awaits his fate on Ellis Island, amid a crush of straining, bewildered faces, Kazan films the immigration officers striding like Roman consuls past the fenced-in throng and into the cavernous great hall.
She helped correct a misunderstanding about the first immigrant to land on Ellis Island, an Irish woman named Annie Moore who arrived in 1892.
Vice President Al Gore, who announced the decision in a speech at Ellis Island in New York, said those refugees "with close family ties in America and those who are vulnerable" will be allowed to enter the United States.
But on Tuesday, a U.S. Supreme Court-appointed special master recommended that most of Ellis Island be given to the state of New Jersey.
By this time she had appeared in the film Every Picture Tells a Story and also in an American mini-series Ellis Island, which coincidentally had her future husband Liam Neeson among the cast.
Heading south, forego the tourist boat-tours to Liberty Island and instead climb aboard the Staten Island Ferry, alongside the commuters, for a terrific view - free of charge - of Ellis Island, Lower Manhattan and Lady Liberty herself.
The two states signed an 1834 agreement when Ellis Island was only three acres.
Whitman said she plans to appoint a special commission to analyze what to do with the New Jersey's 22 acres of Ellis Island.
That is why New Yorkers are so adamant that Ellis Island should be part of the Empire State rather than the Garden State.
In his scenes, the faces of his characters, whether Turkish prostitutes, Ellis Island immigrants, Mexican peasants, or well-chosen stars, became dramatic landscapes in themselves.
The New York Post identified the man as Ellis Belodoff, 53, of Plainview, Long Island.
Located in Upper New York Bay, Ellis Island served as a gateway for millions of immigrants to the United States from 1892 until 1954.
Symbolic of Neubauer's international bent, perhaps, is Ellis Island, in New York Harbor, where for many years immigrants to the U.S landed and went through processing.
New York (CNN) -- The National Park Service announced that there is no projected reopening date for New York's iconic Ellis Island due to extensive damage it sustained during Superstorm Sandy last October.
The U.S. government is another big customer: Aramark provides lodging and tours not only to Ellis Island but to such U.S. national parks as Denali National Park in Alaska (home of Mount McKinley).
Stops along the way include downtown restaurants and clubs, a Fulton Market cooking class (a clumsy scene), Ellis Island (a borderline-manipulative scene about a borderline-manipulative strategy) and an unlikely, though entertaining, Jet Ski interlude on the Hudson River.
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