Hart island

A few miles off the coast of the Bronx is Hart Island, a potter's field where New York City's poor and unclaimed dead are buried.

Hart Island - the largest mass burial site in America, where inmates bury the dead (pictured) - is the final resting place of New York City's poor, lost souls - as well as many beloved family members

Claire Yaffa's 1991 photographs of inmates burying abandoned children who died of AIDs are among the only existing images of the Hart Island potter's field.

Relatives of people buried at a New York City island that serves as the largest mass grave in the United States will have increased access to the cemetery under a modified lawsuit settlement announced on Tuesday. Hart Island, a mile-long strip of land in the Long Island Sound that sits at the eastern edge of

New York residents might know of Hart Island, but few are familiar with its long-standing mission as the largest & least visited burial ground in the U.S.

Get a Drone's-Eye View of Hart Island Manhattan's Off-Limits Potter's Field

City workers are making emergency repairs to a grave site damaged by Sandy

The abandoned Hart Island is uninhabited today, but more than 800,000 dead has been buried there, making it the largest tax-funded cemetery in the world.

Hart Island, the city’s graveyard for unclaimed bodies, holds many stories, myths, and visions. Can the most recent plan, of turning it into a publi...