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Hart Island is open to the public – here are other NYC areas built over mass graves
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.
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Burial with dignity
COVID made this plain, and in one of the book’s most moving passages Meier relates a pilgrimage to the public cemetery on New York City’s Hart Island, the 131-acre landmass in the Long Island Sound ...
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Bodies of 750 COVID Victims Are Still Sitting in Refrigerated Trucks in NYC One Year Later
Unclaimed bodies will likely go to Hart Island ... has been slowly moving some of the bodies to Hart Island as many families opt for that burial option, Maniotis said, but they've also lost ...