New York Harbor that contains a museum and former

South side

Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital
The south side of the island, home to the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital, is abandoned and remains unrenovated.^[370][371] Disagreements over its proposed use have precluded any development on the south side for several decades.^[221] 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 hotel on the site of the hospital.^[372][216] 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.^[373] Though the hotel proposal was dropped in 1986 for lack of funds,^[374] the NPS allowed developer William Hubbard to redevelop the south side as a convention center, though Hubbard was not able to find investors.^[375] The south side was proposed for possible future development even through the late 1990s.^[32][376]
Save Ellis Island led preservation efforts of the south side of the island. The ferry building remains only partially accessible to the general public.^[377] 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.^[378]
In 2014, the NPS started offering guided public tours of the south side as part of the "Hard Hat Tour", which charged an additional fee that would be used to support Save Ellis Island's preservation efforts.^[45] The south side also includes "Unframed – Ellis Island", an art installation by the French street artist JR, which includes murals of figures who would have occupied each of the respective hospital buildings.^[379][380]