A Stay at Ellis Island Hospital Could Determine Whether an Immigrant Had a Chance to Start a New Life in America


Some 276,000 patients were admitted to the medical facility between 1892 and 1951. But the abandoned complex has long been overlooked, and preservationists are fighting to save it

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