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Buried in Bureaucracy: A Look at Hart Island, the City's Cemetery
Yuval Rosenberg, WNYC News
August 2, 2010
For more than 140 years, Hart Island, part of the Bronx, has served as Potter’s Field for New York...
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Insel der einsamen Toten
Felix Wadewitz, New York German Press translation
July 7, 2010
Strafgefangene verscharren jedes Jahr Tausende Leichen in einem Massengrab auf Hart Island, einer Insel vor New York. Dort landen nicht nur Obdachlose und einsame Drogensüchtige.
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Poets Honor Potter's Field Dead in Flushing
Nathan Duke, New York Times Ledger
May 13, 2010
A group of 11 poets from across the five boroughs honored people who had been buried in the Bronx’s Potter’s Field...
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Poets to honor the dead at Potter's Field on Mother's Day, as part of the Hart Island Project
Leigh Remizowski, New York Daily News
May 4, 2010
Several families may find solace on Mother's Day in a belated memorial service...
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Sketching the Lives Long Buried and Forgotten
Andy Newman, The New York Times
April 23, 2010
The drawing is nearly devoid of detail. It shows a vague-faced man in a suit, ripped from context, leaning his hand up against nothing.
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Poets To Spotlight N.Y.C.'s Hart Island Potters Field
Linda Frye Burnham , Community Arts News
April 16, 2010
On Mothers' Day, May 9, 2010, poets will gather at historic Flushing Meeting House to read names of people who died in New York
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Field of Baby Sorrows
Reuven Blau, New York Post
September 13, 2009
Juana Morales just wants to find her baby. (Please note: This article is incorrectly states the size of the mass graves. There are 1000 babies per grave and 150-162 adults...
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Mistakes in Burying Babies
Jim Hoffer, ABC News
June, 2009
This is where New York buries its babies. Those poor, anonymous, and forgotten. For decades now, tiny pine coffins have been neatly stacked in trenches.
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Hart Island Babies
John Deutzman, Fox 5 Investigators
May 23, 2009
There are accusations that the city could have mishandled the burials of at least 1,000 babies. It's a disturbing discovery made by a woman who has a passion for helping people find their loved ones.
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Missing Brooklyn Mother
John Deutzman, Fox 5 Investigates
January 12, 2009
In May 2008, the daughters of Antoinette Rubin searched for help to determine if their mother was buried on Hart Island. After finding her burial record and death certificate, they arranged for her remains...
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Freelance
Michael Greenberg, Times Literary Supplement
September 26, 2008
Last week a friend introduced me to the artist Melinda Hunt who has been boring through the bureaucratic and metaphysical mysteries of Hart Island since 1991 ...
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Finding the Names of Hart Island's Forgotten
Cara Buckley, New York Times
March 24, 2008
An artist is hoping to create an online database of the names of people who have been buried since 1985 on Hart Island, home to New York ...
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Finding relatives in Potter's Field
Jim Hoffer, Eyewitness News Investigators
February 19, 2008
It is the largest taxpayer-funded cemetery in the world, yet public access is severely restricted. And those trying to identify whether a missing loved one is buried there still face a bureaucratic maze ...
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Melinda Hunt on the Hart Island Project
Nick Stillman, NYFA Current
December 5, 2007
Since 1991, I have had a virtual studio on New York City’s most invisible 100 acres. While it seems incredible that there could be anything invisible in the media capital of the world, Hart Island represents...
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Searching for Names on an Island of Graves
Sewall Chan, New York Times
November 26, 2007
New York City has agreed to turn over 1,300 pages of records that could shed light on the identities of some 50,000 people who have been buried over the past several decades at Hart Island, the city’s public burial ground in Long Island Sound.