Hidden New York
ENES

Ruins & abandoned places

Hospitals gone to ruin, forgotten pavilions and industrial shells inside the five boroughs. Some can be seen from the street or the water, others only from afar; each page says what is known.

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6 places

Exterior of the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital buildings on Island 3
Ruins & abandoned

Ellis Island Hospital

Ellis Island Hospital · the abandoned medical side of Ellis Island

Coastal landscape at Fort Tilden on the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens
Ruins & abandoned

Fort Tilden

Fort Tilden · graffiti-covered batteries between dunes and sea

The former New York Cancer Hospital at 455 Central Park West with its round towers
Ruins & abandoned

New York Cancer Hospital

New York Cancer Hospital · a French château built as a hospital

View of the 1965 World’s Fair grounds from a Ferris wheel, with the New York State Pavilion in the distance
Ruins & abandonedFilmed here

New York State Pavilion

New York State Pavilion · World’s Fair towers and Tent of Tomorrow

Brick buildings of the Seaview Hospital complex on Staten Island
Ruins & abandonedFilmed here

Seaview Hospital

Seaview Hospital · a vast tuberculosis complex on Staten Island

Gothic Revival entrance front of the Smallpox Hospital ruin on Roosevelt Island
Ruins & abandoned

Smallpox Hospital

Smallpox Hospital · Gothic ruin at the tip of Roosevelt Island