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New York City's Hart Island Is The Final Resting Place For Over 1 Million Unclaimed Individuals, And It Was Only Just Opened To The Public In 2023
For more than a century, New York City’s Hart Island has served as a burial ground for the unclaimed dead. It is the final resting place of over one million individuals. The public was not ...
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Visiting New York’s island of the dead
NEW YORK — The first time I heard about Hart Island, I couldn’t believe it. There’s a 150-year-old mass grave on an island in the Bronx? And, until recently, it was totally off-limits to the ...
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Hart Island
Be one of the first to take part in new public walking tours of the abandoned Hart Island led by Urban Park Rangers! Here are Untapped New York's favorite abandoned places in New York City's five ...
Staten Island stillborn infants laid to rest in time-honored tradition
Our stillborn burials highlight the humanity of those we bury and that they are a part of our community," Richmond County ...
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Hart Island is open to the public – here are other NYC areas built over mass graves
NEW YORK (PIX11) – Hart Island earned its name as New York City’s final resting place, but it may now become the city’s newest green space. The island sits between the Bronx and Long Island ...
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