Pawel Winiarski

Hart Island as seen from City Island in New York borough of the Bronx in 2009.

Is your family member buried on Hart Island, off the coast of New York? Sorry, you can’t visit

February 13, 2015Culture

Up to a million poor and unknown New Yorkers have been laid to rest at Hart Island, where the city buries them in mass graves. The site is largely off-limits to the public, but a group called the Hart Island Project is trying to resurrect the stories of the dead with a new online museum.

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