The hospital campus has been abandoned for over 50 years, but thanks to the preservation efforts of Save Ellis Island, many spaces are now open to the public on special hard hat tours led by the ...

The abandoned Ellis Island Hospital complex was once the standard for United States medical care (and later transformed to the FBI headquarters when the island served as a detention center).

Visits to Ellis Island have long been confined to the main building, which was also once abandoned before reopening, renovated, as a museum in 1990. The tour from Save Ellis Island is surprisingly ...

Ellis Island is a major tourist attraction, but much of the island is off limits to all but a select few. Take a tour of the Ellis Island hospital complex.

Ellis Island is a major tourist destination, attracting more than 4 million visitors a year. Still, much of the island remains off limits to all but a select few. Skip to content.

Although Ellis Island is technically in New Jersey — the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1998 that only a small portion belongs to New York — there are still many Brooklyn connections worth ...

Ellis Island Is Opening an Abandoned Hospital to the Public for the First Time in 60 Years There are 29 abandoned buildings in all, several of which visitors can explore. Rachel Nuwer.

A wall of scaffolding is surrounding one of the nation’s most treasured national monuments this Fourth of July. The ...

Ellis Island, the gateway for millions of Jewish immigrants entering the United States, may shortly be abandoned, it was indicated today by the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

About 12 million immigrants passed through Ellis Island until it was shuttered 70 years ago in 1954. Among them were Isaac ...

Abandoned Ellis Island In the early 1970s, two high school filmmakers ventured out in a rowboat to make a 16 mm film about an abandoned space nearby: Ellis Island. ...