The Hart Island Project
Since 1980, 78,545 people have been buried on Hart Island. Traveling Cloud Museum is a collection of stories that you can experience at home or on location. By clicking on a plot number you can access records of individuals buried at that location. Each person has a clock measuring how long they have been buried on the island.
Inside New York City’s Mass Graveyard on Hart Island | TIME
2020年11月19日 · Hart Island is a graveyard of last resort. Since 1869, New York City has owned and operated this potter’s field—the largest in the country. City workers put unidentified or unclaimed corpses in...
A Million Bodies Are Buried on Hart Island. Now It’s Becoming a …
2023年3月24日 · Now, in a remarkable break with the decades-old policy of keeping Hart Island burials secretive and its graves unseen, the department is opening New York’s most forbidden place for public...
NYC Is Burying More Bodies in Each Hart Island Mass Grave
2024年9月4日 · The 100-plus acre island in the Long Island Sound, just east of City Island, has served as the city’s burial ground since 1869 for the bodies of unclaimed New Yorkers and those whose families couldn’t afford funeral arrangements. More than a million people are buried there, making it one of the largest burial grounds in the country.
Graveyard of over 1 million unclaimed, unidentified, and indigent ...
2023年12月1日 · 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 visitors after decades of being ...
The Island Where New York City Buries Its Unclaimed Dead Is …
2023年3月31日 · Since 1869, more than one million New Yorkers have been buried on the 131-acre strip of land called Hart Island, the nation’s largest public cemetery. They have arrived in plain wooden caskets,...
On Hart Island, anonymous graves represent eras of New York …
2024年10月22日 · Tours of Hart Island graves educate visitors on eras from the Civil War through the AIDS crisis. 8 min Ranger Michael Whitten holds an aerial photograph of Hart Island from the 1940s.
Finding Loved Ones - Hart Island - NYC.gov
Hart Island records are searchable through the Hart Island database with records dating back to 1977, which enables members of the public to determine if a loved is buried on the island. The searchable database is available for public access to search for individuals by name, age, birth date, date of death, or by the assigned Medical Examiner ...
A Bronx Island With a Million Graves Is Now a Park
2023年11月16日 · Hart Island, off the Bronx, has long served as New York City’s potter’s field, a burial ground for the unclaimed dead. But the city is opening limited tours next week.
Hart Island - NYC.gov
Hart Island serves as the City's public cemetery and is the final resting place of over one million individuals. The island has now transitioned to a joint HRA and NYC Parks management structure. The City is committed to ensuring that the public has access to the island and has several services available to help the individuals find and visit ...