Last Tuesday was the first public tour conducted by urban park rangers of Hart Island, New York’s City public burial ground located half a mile to the east of City Island in the Bronx.

With record-breaking coronavirus-related deaths overwhelming morgues and mortuaries in New York City, the public cemetery on Hart Island is seeing an increase in burials—from 24 a week to 24 a day.

It’s no longer wrapped up in the past. The nation’s largest public cemetery — and purportedly the largest tax-funded cemetery in the world — is located just off the Bronx in the Long ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Hart Island, a giant cemetery that many advocates consider neglected for years, is finally getting noticed by City Hall. Elected officials have agreed to support a bill to ...

The Hart Island project maintains an online database of people buried since 1980 and “assists families and individuals with limited resources in accessing public burial records and information ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hart Island is a mass cemetery in New York designated for the poor and unknown people, pictured are members of the US Army placing American flags at graves at Arlington National Cemetery May 26 ...

New York City’s Hart Island is the nation’s largest public cemetery, but cities and towns across the country also run these potter’s fields, and many of them, similarly, are no longer just ...