Negro Coney Island: The New York Amusement Park That Never Opened

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

NYC off the grid: Hart Island’s buried secret

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 ...
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Starr Whitehouse’s Hart Island concept plan released by New York City Department of Parks & Recreation

Hart Island is a 131-acre New York City public cemetery in Long Island Sound—you have to take a short ferry from City Island in the Bronx to get there. It’s the final resting place for over 1 million ...
New York Post

Hart Island, NYC potter’s field, can get major upgrades under new plan

The city’s long neglected potter’s field may get an upgrade that includes a new visitor’s center, restrooms and benches. Hart Island’s facelift would come over 20 years and would include more shade ...
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New York's Island of the Dead Included in List of 2017 Preservation Priorities

The Historic Districts Council included New York City's mass grave, Hart Island, among its Six to Celebrate neighborhood preservation priorities. Its narrow shores are dotted with crumbling structures ...