ELLIS ISLAND HARD HAT TOUR

Ellis Island's historic south side is open to the public. The artist JR has created an art installation throughout the abandoned buildings there, titled "Unframed—Ellis Island." We were able to buy tickets for hard hat tours of the unrestored buildings.
The art installation on the south side features life size photographs of Ellis Island immigrants pasted up around the walls of the abandoned hospital buildings. This is actually part of JR's larger "Unframed" series, which uses old photos, and here "the artist’s intent is to evoke a sense of time and place and give context to the human lives that were touched by their time at Ellis Island."