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

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 ...

Green-Wood Cemetery aims to start human composting in 2027, making it the first to put the process — known as Natural Organic ...

Serial attacker battered at least half a dozen female victims in Silver Lake, West Brighton and Emerson Hill during terror ...

New federal plans for Mare Island Naval Cemetery, slowly recovering from years of neglect, go well beyond recent improvements and hold out the prospect of major restoration of the national historic ...

Thomas J. Hart, 92, of New Bedford, passed away Friday, December 12, 2025, at Care One in New Bedford. He was the loving husband of Jeanne P. (Lemire) Hart, and shared 72 years of marriage. Born in ...

BEAUFORT — Parties in a lawsuit over access to a Gullah cemetery on St. Helena Island appeared in court Dec. 16 arguing a pair of motions. Theresa Aigner, Robert Cody Harper and Walter Robert Harper ...

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 ...

The City Council on Wednesday passed a bill that could help lay the groundwork for the proposed $130 million redevelopment of one of the most densely packed plots in the city: Hart Island, home to 1 ...

The reality TV alum announced on Instagram that she is pregnant and expecting her second baby with husband Sam Rason "After two heartbreaking miscarriages in the last year, we’re both very excited, ...

Troy Lynn Hart, 54, of Cresco, Iowa, passed away Wednesday, November 5, 2025, at home surrounded by his family. A funeral service will be held Tuesday, November 11, 2025, at 11:00 a.m., at Immanuel ...

A Gold Star Mother helped establish a monument at the Rhode Island Veterans Cemetery to honor families of fallen service members. The cemetery in Exeter is the final resting place for 45,000 Rhode ...