New York
A Bronx Island With a Million Graves Is Now a Park
We took the small city-run ferry that shuttles morgue trucks carrying roughly 1,000 bodies a year for burial in unmarked pine boxes on Hart Island, the nation’s largest public cemetery.
The 130-acre island in Long Island Sound was long off limits and run by the jail system, which used inmate gravediggers.
It has been taken over by the city’s Parks Department, which has opened it for limited public access via two walking tours a month.
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