Ellis Island

Week of Sept. 17, 1990
Ellis Island has been abandoned since 1954 to the pigeons and the vandals, discarded like so much else in American history. But now, after a $156 million restoration, the grandiose immigration center, it is hoped, will again attract the crowds — this time as tourists.

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