To: Clemenza
Don’t know much about what % came through the various ports of entry, my dad came with three brothers through Ellis Island, late 40’s early 50’s. My dad in 1951.
A few months later, subway to One Whitehall Street, Manhattan - Korean War.
13 posted on
05/31/2007 8:18:19 AM PDT by
IrishMike
( What happens when aliens breed with sheep ? - Democrats)
To: IrishMike
Ellis Island opened in 1892, long after the largest wave of Irish immigration (1840-1870). There was still significant Irish immigration up until the early 1990s, but the biggest wave was pre-Ellis Island.
The main immigration processing station in New York prior to 1892 was Castle Garden, which was near where the Staten Island Ferry terminal stands today.
14 posted on
05/31/2007 8:22:22 AM PDT by
Clemenza
(Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
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