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The New York City Department of Parks and Recreation announced its rangers will begin leading tours of Hart Island. The effort to dispel negative perceptions of the mass graveyard starts on Nov. 21, 2023.

Bronx Times

Parks department opens Hart Island to the public

Radio Diaries and Radiotopia are launching a new podcast called "The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island." Pictured, Susan Hurlburt visits her son's grave on the island.

Bronx Times

New Radio Diaries podcast chronicles mysteries of people buried on Hart Island

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Bronx Times

Hart Island touchstone advocates will finally place their bereavement stone at the graveyard

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Bronx Times

City approves temporary placement for Hart Island memorial touchstone

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Bronx Times

Local advocates pushing for memorial touchstone on Hart Island run into roadblocks

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‘There will be no mass burials’: de Blasio rules out Hart Island for most COVID-19 deceased

Posted on April 10, 2020

Drone pictures show bodies being buried on New York’s Hart Island amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in New York City

New York City hires laborers to bury dead in Hart Island potter’s field amid coronavirus surge

Posted on April 9, 2020

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Bronx

De Blasio signs laws to make Hart Island a ‘dignified resting place’

Posted on December 4, 2019

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News

City Council votes to reform operations at Hart Island, America’s largest public cemetery

Posted on November 13, 2019

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Politics

MAHN Lawmakers On The Move May 30, 2019

Posted on May 30, 2019

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