Potter’s Field

05 Aug 2019

Hart Island: The Little Known Place Where NYC’s Nameless & Penniless are Buried

BY HANNAH HARKNESS Why the hell don’t more New Yorkers know about Hart Island? There is an island off the coast of the Bronx that currently serves as NYC’s potter’s field-a site where unclaimed dead are buried. There are over a million bodies buried here. Some unclaimed dead such as

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