Hart Island
USA /
New York /
Kings Point /
World
/ USA
/ New York
/ Kings Point
World / United States / New York
island, cemetery
Hart Island was the site of the Civil War era prison, a mental asylum and eventually a Nike Ajax missile battery during the Cold War. It is currently used as a potter's field: a burial site for New York City's indigent dead.
There are over 1,000,000 people buried on Hart Island by prison labor from Rikers Island on work detail. Medical waste such as amputated body parts and stillborn fetuses are also buried here. Like every great city, New York has developed a funerary culture that mirrors its living culture, and the pronounced disparity between rich and poor is reflected even in death. The wealthy can be buried under elaborate monuments in prestigious cemeteries while some of the least fortunate are relegated to a pauper’s grave.
The Island is administered by the New York City Department of Corrections and trespassing is illegal.
www.nyc.gov/html/doc/html/about/hart_island.shtml
www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/hart/harling/mi...
www.nytimes.com/2023/03/24/nyregion/hart-island-cemeter...®ion=footer
www.hartisland.net/
There are over 1,000,000 people buried on Hart Island by prison labor from Rikers Island on work detail. Medical waste such as amputated body parts and stillborn fetuses are also buried here. Like every great city, New York has developed a funerary culture that mirrors its living culture, and the pronounced disparity between rich and poor is reflected even in death. The wealthy can be buried under elaborate monuments in prestigious cemeteries while some of the least fortunate are relegated to a pauper’s grave.
The Island is administered by the New York City Department of Corrections and trespassing is illegal.
www.nyc.gov/html/doc/html/about/hart_island.shtml
www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/hart/harling/mi...
www.nytimes.com/2023/03/24/nyregion/hart-island-cemeter...®ion=footer
www.hartisland.net/
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hart_Island_(New_York)
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 40°51'9"N 73°46'8"W
- Long Beach Island 129 km
- Wye Island 299 km
- Kent Island 300 km
- Middle Hooper's Island 353 km
- Bloodsworth Island 356 km
- South Marsh Island 361 km
- Smith Island, MD/VA 369 km
- Hog Island 413 km
- Cobb Island 426 km
- Smith Island, Virginia 449 km
- Eastchester Bay 3.2 km
- Pelham Bay Park 3.5 km
- Davids Island 3.5 km
- Long Island Sound in New Rochelle, NY 4.8 km
- Manhasset Bay 4.8 km
- The Bronx 6.1 km
- Town of North Hempstead 11 km
- Nassau County, New York 18 km
- Westchester County, New York 30 km
- Long Island Sound 60 km