10 Surprising Facts About Ellis Island's Abandoned Hospital
Discover some of the amazing facts you can learn on an exclusive hard hat tour of the abandoned Ellis Island Hospital!

In December, we shared with readers an exclusive excerpt of the e-book Life At the Dakota: New York’s Most Unusual Address by Stephen Birmingham, the noted writer who passed away in November. The book is an exciting history of Manhattan’s most notorious apartment building and the famous tenants who lived there such as John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Fun fact: Lena Dunham generated a lot of buzz for the book last month when she posted a picture of her copy on Instagram calling it her “newly-minted prized possession”
Birmingham’s chronicle of the famed Dakota apartments in New York City differs from the recent book The Dakota: A History of the World’s Best-Known Apartment Building in offering precisely some of the “juicy details” that historian Andrew Alpern deliberately left out of his version.
Now, we are pleased to offer 5 e-book copies to our readers in our latest giveaway. This giveaway will last until March 17th:
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