Hart Island, the city’s burial ground in the Long Island Sound that has been inaccessible for decades, was unveiled as a new public space on Wednesday. Starting next week, the island will be open ...

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 ...

Hart Island has long been an obscured and out-of-reach location for most New Yorkers. Located in the Long Island Sound just off the shore of the Bronx, the island has been used as a mass burial ground ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hart Island is a 131-acre New York City public cemetery in Long Island Sound—you have to take a short ferry from City Island in the Bronx to get there. It’s the final resting place for over 1 million ...

The ferry to Hart Island, visible in background across from City Island in the Bronx In a city where everything seems to be just at one’s fingertips – from a taxi ride to the hope of a better future – ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — A solemn place full of mystery in New York City that has been closed for decades to most visitors will open for some public programming. Hart Island has been the city’s public ...

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 ...

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 public.