Island in New York Harbor that was the busiest immigrant inspection station in the United States and is now a national museum of immigration
General Information
Hard Hat Tour 9am to 2:30pm
The Hard Hat Tour Ticket offers a 90 minute guided tour of the unrestored Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital Complex.
Statue of Liberty crown access: Currently Closed
All visitors must purchase ferry tickets through Statue Cruises
Standard Ferry: $23.50
Hard Hat Tour: $68.50
Standard Ferry with pedestal access: $23.80
The Statue of Liberty Pedestal (with access to the pedestal balcony and the top of Fort Wood)
Ellis Island in New York Harbor was the busiest immigrant inspection station in the U.S., processing nearly 12 million people from 1892 to 1924. It is part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument and is reached only by ferry from Battery Park or Liberty State Park (there is a ferry fee). The main building is now the Ellis Island Immigration Museum (opened 1990), and the south side, with the immigrant hospital, is open by guided "Hard Hat Tour," with JR's art installation "Unframed."
Highlights
- Registry Room: where arrivals were inspected, on the second floor
- Museum exhibits: Peopling of America, Through America's Gate, a dormitory room, and treasures from home; the Family Immigration History Center on the first floor
- Wall of Honor: 775,000 names on 770 panels
Ellis Island was once Fort Gibson and a naval magazine, and after 1924 became a detention center. Most of the island is in Jersey City, New Jersey, with a small New York City exclave.
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