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'Buried in Bureaucracy': A Look at Hart Island, the City's Cemetery
For more than 140 years, Hart Island, part of the Bronx, has served as Potters Field for New York, the city cemetery where the indigent, and others, are buried. Covering 101 acres in at the western end of Long Island Sound, the site is the final resting place for more than 800,000 souls and is the largest tax-funded cemetery in the world. New York Citys Department of Correction runs the island ...