The tourists first thought they had found fossils while exploring South Carolina's Edisto Island. Then they realized the ...

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, ...

And so she was buried on Hart Island in the Bronx, the city’s public cemetery where unclaimed bodies, including the unidentified and the indigent, are laid to rest in mass graves. Entering Hart ...

So, the city designated Hart Island as a cemetery of last resort. The first burial here took place on April 20, 1869, for a 24-year-old woman named Louisa Van Slyke who had succumbed to tuberculosis.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

It’s the largest public cemetery in the nation with 1 million buried there. A grim, usually off-limits part of New York City is opening to the public. The mysterious Hart Island, which has ...

In a matter of days, the nation's largest public cemetery will become New York City's newest park. Hart Island is located off the Bronx in the Long Island Sound — it's a mile-long, uninhabited ...

JOHN MINCHILLO/ASSOCIATED PRESS Hart Island, the New York City cemetery that holds more than 1 million unclaimed dead buried since 1869 and amid the COVID-19 pandemic will open this year to the ...