Editing Ellis Island (section)

===South side===
[[File:Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital building.jpg|thumb|left|Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital]]

The south side of the island, home to the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital, is abandoned and remains unrenovated.<ref>{{cite web |title=Public gets first look in decades of long-neglected Ellis Island hospital |last=O'Neill |first=Erin |date=September 26, 2014 |website=The Star-Ledger |url=https://www.nj.com/news/2014/09/a_look_inside_ellis_island_hospital_complex_that_opens_to_public_next_week.html |access-date=June 3, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=At Statue of Liberty National Monument, Save Ellis Island, Inc., Works to Restore Ellis Island's Time-Ravaged Buildings |url=http://www.uer.ca/forum_showthread.asp?fid=3&threadid=89568 |last=Janiskee |first=Bob |date=September 26, 2008 |publisher=National Parks Traveller}}</ref> Disagreements over its proposed use have precluded any development on the south side for several decades.<ref name="n32809399" /> The NPS held a competition for proposals to redevelop the south side in 1981 and ultimately selected a plan for a conference center and a 250-to-300-room [[Sheraton Hotels and Resorts|Sheraton]] hotel on the site of the hospital.<ref name="nyt19860223" /><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32505757/ |title=Ellis Island rebirth |last=Moritz |first=Owen |date=February 26, 1984 |work=Daily News |location=New York |access-date=June 5, 2019 |page=96 |via=newspapers.com {{open access}}}}</ref> In 1985, while restoration of the north side of Ellis Island was underway, Interior Secretary [[Donald P. Hodel]] convened a long-inactive federal commission to determine how the south side of Ellis Island should be used.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gottlieb |first=Martin |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/23/nyregion/advisory-panel-asked-to-help-settle-ellis-i-plans.html |title=Advisory Panel Asked to Help Settle Ellis I. Plans |date=November 23, 1985 |work=The New York Times |access-date=June 8, 2019}}</ref> Though the hotel proposal was dropped in 1986 for lack of funds,<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/11/nyregion/ellis-i-proposal-is-seen-as-faulty.html |title=Ellis I. Proposal Is Seen as Faulty |last=Gottlieb |first=Martin |date=May 11, 1986 |work=The New York Times |access-date=June 8, 2019}}</ref> the NPS allowed developer William Hubbard to redevelop the south side as a convention center, though Hubbard was not able to find investors.<ref>{{Cite news |date=September 2, 1990 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/02/nyregion/redone-ellis-island-burnished-but-not-brash.html |title=Redone Ellis Island: Burnished but Not Brash |last=Stanley |first=Alessandra |work=The New York Times |access-date=June 8, 2019}}</ref> The south side was proposed for possible future development even through the late 1990s.<ref name="n32246752" /><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/29/nyregion/rescue-plan-for-neglected-south-side-of-ellis-island.html |title=Rescue Plan for Neglected South Side of Ellis Island |last=Halbfinger |first=David M. |date=October 29, 1997 |work=The New York Times |access-date=June 8, 2019}}</ref>

[[Save Ellis Island]] led preservation efforts of the south side of the island. The ferry building remains only partially accessible to the general public.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=49291 |title=New Ferry Building Ellis Island |last=Coughlin |first=Bill |date=November 2011 |publisher=Historical Marker Database |access-date=February 25, 2012}}</ref> As part of the National Park Service's Centennial Initiative, the south side of the island was to be the target of a project to restore the 28 buildings that have not yet been rehabilitated.<ref>{{cite web |title=Summary of Park Centennial Strategies |last=Bomar |first=Mary A. |author-link=Mary A. Bomar |date=August 2007 |publisher=National Park Service |url=http://www.nps.gov/2016/assets/files/Summary-of-Park-Centennial-Strategies.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080215085712/http://www.nps.gov/2016/assets/files/Summary-of-Park-Centennial-Strategies.pdf |archive-date=February 15, 2008 |access-date=February 15, 2008}}</ref>

In 2014, Save Ellis Island started offering guided public tours of the south side as part of the "Hard Hat Tour", which charges an additional fee that is used to support the organization's preservation efforts.<ref name="NPS-south-side-tours-begin" /> The south side also includes "Unframed – Ellis Island", an art installation by the French street artist [[JR (artist)|JR]], which includes murals of figures who would have occupied each of the respective hospital buildings.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/25/arts/design/jr-brings-ellis-islands-abandoned-hospital-to-life.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220101/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/25/arts/design/jr-brings-ellis-islands-abandoned-hospital-to-life.html |archive-date=January 1, 2022 |url-access=limited |title=Shadows Return to Ellis Island |last=Ryzik |first=Melena |date=September 24, 2014 |work=The New York Times |access-date=June 16, 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/artist-jr-hidden-message-on-ellis-island/ |title=Artist's hidden message on Ellis Island |work=CBS News |date=February 25, 2018 |access-date=June 16, 2019}}</ref>