Before NYC's Chelsea Piers was New York's Ultimate Playground, it was one of the foremost ports for famous ocean liners like the Lusitania, and is even tied to the Titanic.
Augustus Sherman was Chief Registry Clerk on Ellis Island in the early 1900s, as well as amateur photographer. The NYPL photos of Sherman's work arenow online.
Artist JR has released the trailer for Ellis, a short narrative film starring Robert DeNiro shot in the abandoned Ellis island Southside Hospitals in NYC.
We went on an extensive hard hat tour of the abandoned Ellis Island Southside Hospitals, looking the JR artwork that hasn't really been photographed or seen.
Untapped Cities visits the south side hospital complex on Ellis Island, the site of Unframed, a large-scale photography installation by Parisian street artist JR.
New exhibit by street artist JR, Unframed–Ellis Island, with Save Ellis Island features life sized historical photographs on Ellis Island's South Side hospitals.
The photographer Paul Margolis will have his photos of the abandoned Ellis Island South Side Hospital on display April 11. They will be shown at The Living Room Gallery at St. Peter's Church.
Hiding in plain sight at Ellis Island is the 22-building abandoned South Side hospital complex that once served over a million immigrants.
Our most popular list on Foursquare is our Abandoned NYC list. Some places are break-in-able, some open to the public, some only for the intrepid.
It's easy to think that the place you've lived in has always been the same but here are eight spots in NYC that were created out of excavations elsewhere.