A million New Yorkers are buried on Hart Island. Now the city wants $130 million for its future
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Just a 10-minute ferry ride from City Island, Hart Island is home to the remains of more than one million New Yorkers. The 101-acre island in the Long Island Sound has served as the city's public cemetery for the unclaimed, unidentified and poor for more than 150 years. But after remaining largely inaccessible to… Read More