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Bones From Hart Island Mass Graves Washing Up In Local Communities

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NEW YORK (CBS New York) — There have been more than a million people buried in the mass graves on Hart Island since 1869, but since the damage of Hurricane Sandy, that’s become a gruesome problem.

“My baby was buried right near the water,” Dr. Laurie Grant from the Hart Island Project told CBS2’s Natalie Duddridge. 

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Advocates say burial ground at Hart Island urgent, remains exposed

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Despite damage from superstorm Sandy to cemetery land exposing human remains on Hart Island, repairs won’t begin for two years — a situation that shocks those concerned about the future of the nation’s largest public burial ground.

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YANA Members Participate in SOM Philanthropy Conference

On February 23, 2018, members of YANA New England sponsored luncheon discussion tables at the SOM Philanthropy Conference.  Topics ranged from how nonprofits can navigate risk and pursue grant-alternative investments, to leveraging partnerships and social media.  Many thanks to Laurie Cameron Craighead SOM ’16 for organizing and bringing together  Melinda Hunt MFA ’85, Marci Sternheim Ph.D. ’89, Rob Leighton SOM ’88, Eileen McDonald Egan MPH ’83, Richard Russell ’81 and Todd Brecher ’91 to provide their expertise and positive energy!

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How the Other Half Dies

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The Hart Island Project’s founder Melinda Hunt is interviewed by Greg Oliver for this behind the scenes special about Hart Island with British actor Luke Evans. The AIienist is a dramatic series on TNT tonight.

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Den idylliske øya ved New York skjuler verdens største massegrav

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Aagot Iversen Gulbrandsen ble født 16. oktober i 1893 i Bergen. Sammen med mannen Olaf, gjorde hun som så mange - emigrerte til Amerika i 1916, 23 år gammel.

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Riker's Island inmates bury the unclaimed dead for work

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Every day, a group of detainees leave Rikers' Island prison in New York. Not to go to court, but to volunteer for an unusual job: digging graves. This drone video shows a disinterment of a twenty-five year old mass gravesite.

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New York's Island of Lost Souls

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The plain wooden coffins are lowered, one by one, from the back of a morgue truck into the hands of waiting inmates, men standing in a pre-dug trench already filled with other bodies on a small, narrow strip of land off the coast of the Bronx.

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Daily Mail

An island of graves, yearning to be free: Let the public visit Hart Island

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We have sponsored legislation in the City Council to transfer jurisdiction from the Department of Corrections to an agency far better suited to a mission of public access, historic preservation and management of the island’s natural environment: the city’s Parks Department.

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Säsong 19 - Det sista avskedet

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Del 10 av 10. Det sista avskedet. På ön Hart Island utanför Manhattan begravs de okända och oönskade. Konstnären Melinda Hunt har i över tjugofem år tid arbetat med att länka ihop öns döda med eventuella anhöriga i livet. Vi möter konstnären och forskaren Jae Rhim Lee, som skapat "the mushroom death suit"; en dräkt med invävda svampsporer som äter upp kroppen och renar den från gifter. Vi träffar också Margareta Magnusson, som skrivit en bok om hur man döstädar, alltså slänger och rensar i livet för att underlätta för de efterlevande. Programledare: Lina Thomsgård.

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Inside the mysteries of Hart Island in the Bronx, the cemetery of the unknown

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Darryl Alladice and his brother, Paul, were born and raised in New York City. In 1987, Paul was striving to become an actor in New York. Darryl moved to Boston to pursue a music career. By 1997, the two had grown distant, talking every few months.

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A Rare Tour Of Hart Island, NYC's Isle Of Lost Souls - Part II

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Part 2 of a series on Hart Island, New York City's potter's field where more than 1 one million people have been buried in mass graves since 1960.

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A Rare Tour Of Hart Island, NYC's Isle Of Lost Souls

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Hart Island is New York City's potter's field. It is a tiny island off of the coast of the Bronx in Long Island Sound where more than one million people have been buried since the 1860s.

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First a Mistaken Burial as a Pauper. Then the Indignities Piled Up.

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Karen Mary Connors lived alone and died that way in 2011. The only child of a New York City firefighter turned lawyer, she lived her final years cloistered in what had been her family’s summer home in the Rockaways, with only a few houses standing between her and the Atlantic Ocean.

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Families of New York's unclaimed dead get more access to graves

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Relatives of people buried at a New York City island that serves as the largest mass grave in the United States will have increased access to the cemetery under a modified lawsuit settlement announced on Tuesday.

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Hart Island, Mott Haven make 2017 ‘Six to Celebrate’ list

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The Historic Districts Council announced this year's picks for the "Six to Celebrate" list, which celebrates historic New York neighborhoods.

The chosen neighborhoods generally include acclaimed architecture or historical sites, but this year the council included Hart Island. 

Residents have been pushing to have the Department of Corrections turn the island over to the Parks Department. It has been used for years as a potter's field.

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Historic Districts Council Announces Annual List of NYC Areas Meriting Preservation

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The Historic Districts Council (HDC), New York’s city-wide advocate for historic buildings and neighborhoods, is pleased to announce that Hart Island is included in its Six to Celebrate, an annual listing of historic New York City neighborhoods that merit preservation attention. 

Six to Celebrate is New York’s only citywide list of preservation priorities. Profiles of each of the 2017 Six to Celebrate neighborhoods, as well as all past neighborhoods, are available by visiting www.6tocelebrate.org. 

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Advocates Call for Expanded Access to Hart Island

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Community advocates, U.S war veterans and City Council members called on the Parks and Recreation Department Thursday to increase efforts to make Hart Island more accessible to the public.

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City mulls opening off-limits sites like Washington Square Park arch to NYers

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The city’s Parks Department manages about 29,000 acres of parkland that’s comprised of all sorts of facilities including your more traditional playgrounds, beaches, and sports facilities, but it is also the steward of many monuments, historic structures, and uninhabited islands throughout the city....

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"An Act of Citizenship"

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When artist and author Melinda Hunt started to research the potter's field on Hart Island, she turned to The New York Public Library for newspaper articles tracing its story. Now the founder of the Hart Island Project, she shares her findings in public places, including nearby City Island Library, to help people learn about Hart Island's unique spot in New York City history.

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Helping Families Find and Bury Their Dead

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New York City’s chief medical examiner and an advocate for the dead’s right to a city burial share their perspectives.

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