Cities all have their curiosities. One of NYC’s curiosities is Hart Island’s Potter’s Field cemetery, where the unclaimed dead are buried. More than 850,000 have been buried here since 1869. Hart ...

The family of a missing Queens woman waited more than three decades to find out she was the victim of a brutal killing. Now they’ll have to wait some more to finally receive her remains — which are ...

In 1925, the Black real estate magnate Solomon Riley was ready to open an amusement park on Hart Island, the site of a prison ...

Supported by tax payers on a city-owned island, New York City’s potter’s field is one of the country’s most inaccessible publicly funded spaces. The Hart Island cemetery is the secluded final resting ...

The ferry to Hart Island, visible in background across from City Island in the Bronx In a city where everything seems to be just at one’s fingertips – from a taxi ride to the hope of a better future – ...

Join host Eileen Lehpamer as she speaks with Fi Whalen and Daniel Tainow, Urban Park Rangers with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, about Hart Island, the city’s public cemetery ...