Hart Island, a potter’s field where New York City has buried its unclaimed dead for more than a century, will finally accept visitors this year. Prisoners leveling the ground on Hart Island in 1983.

An analysis found that more than 2,334 adults were buried on Hart Island last year, up from 846 in 2019. By Daniel E. Slotnik As many as one-tenth of the people who have died from the coronavirus ...

Aerial images captured on Thursday showed 40 caskets lined up for burial at Hart Island — the same day New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo reported 799 new deaths across the state.

Hart Island cemetery. Those videos coincided with a shift in jurisdiction of Hart Island from the New York penal system to NYC Parks in October 2021.

Known as New York City's public burial ground, Hart Island is the final resting place for more than 1 million souls who died in poverty or were homeless, their bodies unclaimed, or during ...

The City of New York bought Hart Island in 1868 and began using it as a public burial ground soon after. Since then, more than a million people have been buried there, making it America's largest ...

Hart Island, the city’s 155-year-old potter’s field, is slated to get massive upgrades under a forthcoming plan to make it more hospitable for a growing number of families who visit the ...

Hart Island will be the final resting place for many coronavirus victims who died alone. The potter’s field is “a very sacred place.” ...

A boat captain was arrested on DWI charges after the vessel caught fire and injured more than 20 people near City Island in ...

NEW YORK — Desolate Hart Island, a mile-long stretch of dirt off the Bronx, has taken New York City's unclaimed dead for 151 years: Civil War soldiers, stillborn babies, the homeless and AIDS ...

Hart Island was once home to a psychiatric hospital, homeless shelter and jail, but most of those structures have been torn down. During the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of New Yorkers were buried ...

Hart Island is New York City's public cemetery, sometimes known as a Potter's Field. More than a million people are buried there, in mass graves, each with about 150 coffins inside. There are no ...