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. But the twice a ...

It’s no longer wrapped up in the past. 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 ...

When the time came, Gleny Reyes Gomez knew her father wanted to be buried alongside family in the Dominican Republic. For two years, she’s been working to fulfill his wish. Juan Reyes, an 80-year-old ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Located about 3,000 feet off the coast of City Island in the northeastern Bronx lies Hart Island. Measuring about a mile long, Hart Island serves as the city’s public cemetery ...

Cities all have their curiosities. One of NYC’s curiosities is Hart Island’s Potter’s Field cemetery, where the unclaimed dead are buried. More than 850,000 have been buried here since 1869. Hart ...

New Yorkers with loved ones buried at the city’s public cemetery on Hart Island say they want their gravesites protected and a voice in the process as officials look to increase access to the ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- For the first time ever, the NYC Parks Department will be offering public tours of Hart Island, the largest public cemetery in the country. The free tours, organized by the ...

Last week we uncovered some of New York City’s former cemeteries that are now populated with park-goers and hotel residents. This week, we’re taking a closer look at a cemetery that rarely receives ...

This is the second story in The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island series from Radio Diaries. You can listen to the next installment on All Things ...

Hart Island, the public cemetery and potter’s field in the Bronx, has been a place of enduring mystery. Since 1869, more than a million people, many unknown, have been buried there. The eight episodes ...