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A Tour of NYC’s Mass Burial Site That’s Also a Public Park Now

A tombstone reading "Global Pandemics A Touchstone for Humanity" sits in a field on Hart Island.

A short ferry ride from City Island across the Long Island Sound sits one of New York City’s newest parks — that’s also the nation’s largest common grave with over a million New Yorkers buried there since 1868.  Hart Island is partly forested but boasts large open fields where geese meander and osprey swoop overhead, […]

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