Although other cities also received immigrants, New York was the nation ... limped or suffered breathlessness. A small number would be sent to the Ellis Island hospital. Between 1896 and 1920 ...

This allows the tiny island of Little Diomede - which is home to less roughly 77 residents and mostly lacks running water - to see the New Year nearly a day before the rest of the world.

A TINY remote island that sits just two miles between the US and Russia allows residents to bring in the new year a day before it arrives. Alaska's Little Diomede Island lies just 2.4 miles from ...