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.

Last Tuesday was the first public tour conducted by urban park rangers of Hart Island, New York’s City public burial ground located half a mile to the east of City Island in 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Those are the people who will be buried on Hart Island, with every measure of respect and dignity New York City can provide.” The bodies arrive by ferry from City Island in the Bronx.

Hart Island’s facelift would come over 20 years and would include more shade coverage on the 131-acre site to accommodate a growing number of families visiting the isolated site, according to a ...

Hart Island is one of the city's most beautiful and mysterious places. A new video from Unforgotten Films takes you into this normally off-limits island off the Bronx. Hart Island is one of the ...

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 ...

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 ...