Many New Yorkers have never heard of Hart Island, but the contested ... There are also several memorials on the island, including the Peace monument installed in 1948 under the administration ...

“She doesn’t get peace if he’s in ... the stillness of the cemetery. Hart Island, which lies at the western tip of the Long Island Sound adjacent to the Bronx, played an essential role ...

18 Photos View Slide Show › By John Freeman Gill For more than 150 years, Hart ... for Hart Island operations, two decommissioned Cold War-era Nike missile silos and a peace monument built ...

Twice a month, a 10-minute ferry ride from City Island in the Bronx transports a group of visitors to the little-known Hart Island ... a Civil War monument, a Nike missile site and the island ...

Hart Island, though ... specify whether the tour is for the north or south side of the island — the north tour covers a peace monument, a former underground missile silo, and the site of ...

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, restrooms and benches. Hart Island’s facelift would come over ...

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 ...

The nation’s largest public cemetery — and purportedly the largest tax-funded cemetery in the world — is located just off the Bronx in the Long Island Sound, on Hart Island. The mass ...

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 ...

In the latest short film released by Unforgotten Films, you might be watching some of the final pieces of footage of the abandoned buildings on Hart Island. Eighteen of the crumbling historic ...

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Hart Island’s facelift ... alongside the preservation of the island’s 90-year-old chapel as a “ruin” and a permanent home for a touchstone monument honoring victims of “global pandemics ...