TRENTON — Gov. Jon Corzine signed nearly two dozen bills into law Friday, including measures that restrict the marketing of credit cards at colleges, allow the state to invest cash and pension funds with New Jersey banks, and create personal finance courses for high school students.
When most New Yorkers think of Ellis Island, they probably recall the Great Hall where 12 million immigrants were processed, which opened to the public in 1990 after three decades of neglect and disrepair.
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For tens of thousands of immigrants, making it to the Ferry Building on Ellis Island was the next-to-last step on a long, arduous journey to America.
ELLIS ISLAND, N.J. — On a chilly afternoon, wind and rain whip through the broken windows of a small, dark room where people with tuberculosis once stared out at the Statue of Liberty and wondered if they would ever begin a new life in America.
With victory still fresh in their border war with New York, the top elected officials of New Jersey planned to journey to Ellis Island — that's Ellis Island, New Jersey — for a bit of ceremonial gloating on the Fourth of July.
