Jacobs also points out parasitic birds, sandpipers migrating from the arctic and even peregrine falcons. While the streets of ...

Photo: NYPL Archive Still woozy from a night of singing and dancing, Mary Ellen Smith sailed for New York in 1920 with the ... in New York in 1925, Ellis Island was already a tiny city sitting on 27 ...

A participant holds a sign during a Jan. 25 interfaith rally in support of ... Immigrant children and some adults pose after their arrival in 1908 at Ellis Island in New York. Q: What do the U.S.

A county in New York City’s Long Island suburbs will be teaming up with federal authorities in President Donald Trump’s ...

For a handful of years, starting in the mid 1920s, Germany’s doomed Weimar ... the curator of the New York show, was a break with the immediate past—with the Germany of the Kaiser, militarism ...

On Friday, January 31st, Broadway and West End sensation Kerry Ellis performed at 54 Below in New York City ... He is a 16-time "Best of Long Island" winner, where for three consecutive years ...

The New York Blood Center has canceled 17 planned ... to pull over a street racing suspect on the Long Island Expressway. During the pursuit, the suspected driver of a Ford Mustang struck ...

I’m getting loosey-goosey just talking to you about it.” Since the financial crisis, luxury residential skyscrapers have gone ...

A 1915 silent film about the life of Abraham Lincoln, previously thought lost forever, was found on Long Island.

If you’re a fan of historical fiction, which half of that is most important to you: the history? Or the fiction? It’s entertaining to encounter actual people and events in a novel, where what we ...

At the end of the 19th century, Ellis Island immigration station in New York became known as the gateway to America. Between 1892 and 1954, over 12 million immigrants entered the United States through ...

A United Airlines flight from Houston to New York was evacuated Sunday morning after a fire broke out on the plane during takeoff. In footage obtained by Fox 26, passengers can be heard screaming ...