December 16, 2009
Tours of abandoned Ellis Island on sale for holidays
Save Ellis Island, the non-profit that’s helping the National Park Service preserve and restore the still-empty buildings at the historic immigration center, will offer a limited number of tours of the abandoned hospital as part of a holiday gift membership special.
 “With a donation of $100 or more, the recipient will receive a very special gift, one that cannot be purchased at the Mall - a tour of the unrestored portion of Ellis Island for two,” Save Ellis Island announced in its membership e-mail on Tuesday.
The memberships must be purchased in December. The hard-hat tours will be scheduled in the spring and summer of 2010.
The abandoned portions of the island have been open to tours on a very limited basis since the 2005 OpenHouse NY event. (Pictures.) Tours will begin the Ferry Building, (which was the first abandoned building restored and opened to the public in 2007) and proceed to the still-shuttered hospital side of the island.
Picture credits: Ellis Island hospital tour in 2006, including a hallway, surgery room and broken window. Amy Langfield/NewYorkology.
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December 16, 2009 9:16 AM in Architecture, Downtown, History, Museums, Out of Manhattan, Shopology, Sightsology, Tours
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