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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Twice a month, a 10-minute ferry ride from City Island in the Bronx transports a group of visitors to the little-known Hart Island — the city’s public cemetery and, until recently, off limits ...

This story is the first in a series called The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island from Radio Diaries. You can listen to the next installment on All Things ...