Hart Island

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Hart Island is a small island in the Bronx, New York City, best known as the site of the city's potter's field where over a million unclaimed and indigent people have been buried.

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Label Occurrences
Hart Island canonical 1
Potter’s Field 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf island
potter's field
accessibleFrom City Island
adjacentTo Pelham Bay Park
surface form: Pelham Bay Park (across the water)
burialType indigent burials
mass graves
pauper burials
unclaimed bodies
country United States of America
environment coastal island
governedBy New York City Charter
surface form: Charter of the City of New York
hasAlternativeName City Cemetery
Hart's Island
hasCoordinateLatitude 40.855
hasCoordinateLongitude -73.778
hasCulturalDepiction subject of documentaries about mass burials
subject of photography projects on unmarked graves
hasFunction cemetery
military site (historical)
prison site (historical)
quarantine site (historical)
rehabilitation center site (historical)
workhouse site (historical)
hasLegalStatus public property
hasTransportationRestriction limited public access
jurisdiction New York City Council District (relevant district)
laterManagedBy New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
locatedIn The Bronx
surface form: Bronx

New York
surface form: New York (state)

New York City
locatedInBodyOfWater Long Island Sound
locatedNear City Island
managedBy New York City Department of Correction
notableFor being New York City's potter's field since the 19th century
being one of the largest taxpayer-funded cemeteries in the United States
numberOfBurials over 1,000,000
ownedBy New York City
surface form: City of New York
partOf Bronx County
New York City public cemetery system
region Northeastern United States
startTimeAsPottersField 1869
timeZone Eastern Time Zone
usedAs potter's field for New York City
public burial ground
usedFor burial of AIDS victims (historical)
burial of COVID-19 victims
burial of epidemic victims (historical)
burial of people whose families could not afford funerals
burial of stillborn infants
burial of unidentified persons

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Field of Blood hasAlternativeDesignation Hart Island
this entity surface form: Potter’s Field