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 ...

The city still conducts about 1,100 burials every year on Hart Island, adding to the million bodies already buried on this 131-acre strip in Long Island Sound off the coast of the Bronx.

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. Here’s what I saw ...

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, ...

Hart Island is located off the Bronx in the Long Island Sound — it's a mile-long, uninhabited plot of land used to bury more than 1 million people over the last 154 years. "Hart Island itself is ...

Irish people are among those buried on New York’s Hart Island, final resting place of the unknown, the unclaimed and those ...

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 ...

From military training to missile storage, Hart Island has had a long history in the borough: as a workhouse, as a POW camp, and as storage for Nike defense missiles during the Cold War. Since ...

She found an online database run by a nonprofit called The Hart Island Project, containing records of people buried in America's largest public cemetery, off the coast of the Bronx. There were ...

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 ...