Ellis Island ceased to be an immigration port in 1954. But while it remains central to one of New York's most iconic images, ...

Outside the Washington Heights branch of the Public Library in Manhattan stands a metal post topped with an unassuming blue ...

Wall Street is known for its stock trades, but 300 years ago it was the site of a very different kind of investment.

To start The New Yorker, Ross’ poker partner Fleischmann was willing to stake him US$25,000—roughly $450,000 in today’s ...

In the 1800s and early 1900s in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Valentine’s Day was not just for lovers, it was also for haters and just ...

The two human services buildings — the almshouse and hospital — likely were the fourth and fifth buildings under county watch ...

During the height of the oyster craze in New York in the 1800s, everyone was eating them at oyster saloons, oyster stalls, and at home. This recipe from 1880 is one of the many, many ways that people ...

What was going on was just one of those things that happen from time to time in the middle of the night in New York. Something large ... specifically, two 1,800-pound statues that belong to ...

The Trump administration is demanding at least 1,800 arrests per day from Immigration ... has conducted raids in major sanctuary including New York, Denver, Chicago, Los Angeles and Boston ...

SPRINGFIELD – Illinois lawmakers kicked off their spring legislative session roughly three weeks ago, but lawmakers in the House have already filed more than 1,800 bills that could be acted on ...

Stephen Rea has been living amidst a heavy winter downfall that has blanketed New Orleans in white, a southern US city which almost never sees such conditions. No snowfall of such depth has been ...

New York and 21 other states have sued to stop ... Wisconsin and the District of Columbia, as well as the city of San Francisco. Children affected by Trump's order, the suit says, "will lack ...