The city’s long-neglected potter’s field off the coast of the Bronx may get an upgrade that includes a new visitor’s center, ...

Image New York City has demolished 15 decaying buildings on Hart Island, though officials have no plans to turn the public cemetery into recreational space.Credit...James Estrin/The New York Times ...

Irish people are among those buried on New York’s Hart Island, final resting place of the unknown, the unclaimed and those ...

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 ...

Could Hunt help? If his body was on Hart Island, it was among thousands that had never been identified, Hunt explained. He might find a clue in the burial records. Then again, he might not find ...

Sponsor Message Then they learned about Hart Island. 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 ...

December 1 is World AIDS Day. New York City's Hart Island -- the burial site of more than 1 million people who were unclaimed, unidentified or unable to be buried elsewhere -- is opening to ...

By Corey Kilgannon Since the mid-1800s, New York City’s potter’s field on Hart Island, off the coast of the Bronx, has figured in numerous epidemics affecting New York City — as a burial ...

Many New Yorkers have never heard of Hart Island, but the contested burial ground off City Island in the Bronx is finally getting its day at City Hall following years of activism to open it up to ...

At least 1,000 bodies are buried on the island a year, and more than 1 million can be found in the plots of its potter’s field, known as City Cemetery. Hart Island’s storied history ...

More than a million people are buried there, making it one of the largest burial grounds in the country. After years of advocacy from the Hart Island Project and others, a city law passed in 2019 ...

Hart Island is one of the latest mass graves turned visitor attractions in New York City. Many of the city’s most popular parks were built over public burial grounds known as potter’s fields.