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From Architect John Burgee's pleasant new wooden Liberty Island pier, the trip over to Ellis Island takes just five minutes. The anxious immigrant's view toward Liberty must have been a bit ominous: the perspective from Ellis is of the statue's back, her cold shoulder. Of the 17...
The common experience of Ellis Island fostered a fitting sort of quasi- kinship among U.S. citizens: nearly half of all Americans today can trace their lineage through the enormous main registry hall. Last week, as two visitors strolled the rich, elegiac ruin, a workman spontaneously announced his family connection with...
Ellis Island, a 33-building campus packed onto 27 acres, is almost as complex architecturally as it is emotionally. For a place not really so old (construction lasted from 1890 to 1935 off and on) and built for quick-and- dirty bureaucratic use, much of the compound is astonishingly lovely...
Of the thousands of ceiling tiles in the main building's vaulted, 58-ft.- high registry hall, only a few dozen needed replacing. In addition to restoring the 20-ft. by 20-ft. dormitory spaces (three families to a room), one wing of the main building will include new exhibition...
Kleinfeld's, an establishment approximately the size of a private airport, sees a lot of Amys--more, it seems, than ever before. A hundred potential brides drop in every day, and 150 on Saturdays. A staff of 100 brings in samples from a stock of some 800 model bridal gowns...