Known as New York City’s public burial ground, Hart Island is the final resting place for more than 1 million souls who died in poverty or were homeless, their bodies unclaimed, or during epidemics like AIDS in the 1980s and the more recent COVID-19 pandemic — many of them buried in unmarked mass graves.
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Originally Published: September 29, 2024 at 5:30 p.m.