The island is made up mostly of material dredged ... shortly after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in March, that Hart-Miller was a possible destination for material dredged from ...

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Hart-Miller Island will not receive new dredged material ... Neighoff said that the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in March is a reminder to prepare for the unexpected, and anticipate ...

Every month, a small ferry departs from City Island in the Bronx, making its way to a place most New Yorkers never see — Hart Island. Aboard the vessel are families visiting the graves of their ...

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 ...

Hart Island, a potter’s field where New York City has buried its unclaimed dead for more than a century, will finally accept visitors this year. Prisoners leveling the ground on Hart Island in 1983.

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 ...

Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HART ISLAND, the Bronx (PIX11) — It’s a remote location where a million souls are buried in mass graves. Despite the ...

Now they’ll have to wait some more to finally receive her remains — which are buried alongside 1 million other people on Hart Island — New York City’s potter’s field. Judy Rodriguez’s ...