Images have emerged of coffins being buried in a mass grave ... is Hart Island," he said. The coronavirus has changed everything about life, and now it's upending the rituals of death. New Yorkers ...

NEW YORK — The first time I heard about Hart Island, I couldn’t believe it. There’s a 150-year-old mass grave on an island in the Bronx? And, until recently, it was totally off-limits to the ...

For more than a century, New York City’s Hart Island ... Aside from being a mass grave and a place to hold fistfights, the island had other functions as well. During the Civil War, the 31st ...