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Ellis Island gets rehabbed for public tours
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But Save Ellis Island, a small nonprofit charged with rehabilitating those 30 buildings and providing education programs, is hoping to lead tours there for the general public by the end of this summer. The initiative will start out as a modest pilot program, with a limited number of available tickets.
"The buildings on the south side are critical to telling the story of Ellis Island," Mr. Piltzecker said.
Mr. Burke speculated that an organization in the medical field might be a candidate to rent space for special events held on the island.
"Visitors could go into an operating room that has been abandoned since 1954," he suggested.
The building complex was at one time the largest public health facility in the U.S., where 1.2 million immigrants were detained for medical reasons, such as tuberculosis.
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