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Hart Island is open to the public – here are other NYC areas built over mass graves
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 and has been a public ...
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 ...
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New York City’s Island of the Dead
A headstone, enveloped by moss and overgrown shrubbery, remains on the island. It reads: We are at peace. Another monument, erected in 1948, was built by prisoners detained in New York’s Hart ...