FILE - This Oct. 22, 2007, file photo shows the general hospital, behind some tourists on the south side of Ellis Island in the New York harbor. The National Trust for Historic Preservation announces its 2012 list of the 11 most endangered historic places. This year’s list includes historic U.S. Post Office buildings nationwide, the historic Atlanta district where Martin Luther King Jr. was born, the boyhood home of Malcolm X in Boston, the hospital complex at Ellis Island in New York Harbor, and the courthouses of Texas, among others.

- The crumbling old sick ward opens off a long hallway, separate from the rest of the Ellis Island hospital complex. Plaster peels from the walls. Broken porcelain light fixtures hang haphazardly above where beds once stood. The low clanging of boats and the splash of waves on the breakwater drift in through cracked windowpanes that showcase a resplendent view of the Statue of Liberty. This is where the sickest immigrants came on their final days.
"If you found yourself in this room, you were either too sick to survive or too sick to stay," tour guide Jessica Cameron-Bush said. "And this was your last view - the Statue of Liberty."
The historic complex, where 1.2 million immigrants received medical care between 1901 and 1954, is opening to the public on Wednesday for the first time in 60 years. The complex of 29 unrestored buildings is located across the ferry slip from the fully-restored immigration museum.
As part of the tour opening, an exhibit by artist JR titled "Unframed - Ellis Island," will be on display throughout the abandoned complex. The exhibit uses life-size historic photographs of immigrants and others that have superimposed on walls and other parts of the buildings. The effect is eerie. Round a corner, and come face-to-face with the eyes of children staring out from busted windows. Enter a sterilization room and see the doctors who once washed up before surgery. The photos are designed to fade away with time.
For the volunteer tour guides and historians, walking through the hospital complex is a dream. "To see the photos come to life, it really is so unique. I can't wait for more people to come and see this," said Cameron-Bush, who is the educational director of Save Ellis Island Inc., a nonprofit that raised funds along with the National Park Service to partially restore several of the hospital building complexes.
The 90-minute tours, run by Cameron-Bush and others, will take place four times a day and will .....

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"This years list includes historic U.S. Post Office buildings nationwide, the historic Atlanta district where Martin Luther King Jr. was born, the boyhood home of Malcolm X in Boston,...."

Say WHAT? Somebody correct me if I am wrong,but wasn't Malcolm X a felon with multiple convictions that converted to Islam while in prison,and who wanted a violent revolution to overthrow our country,murder white people,and make it a black Muslim nation?

Whoever,including Obomber and Holder,who pushed to have the home of Malcolm X restored and to honor him as an American hero needs to be dragged outside,severely beaten,and then dragged to a airport and shipped off to Somalia to live after having his passport and US citizenship revoked and shredded.