Melinda Hunt

Although there are now public tours, there is still no access to the southern part of Hart Island or anonymous AIDS graves.

Hart Island, burial site for many people lost to AIDS, opens to the public New York City Department of Parks and Recreation urban park rangers on Nov. 21 began leading guided tours of Hart Island. Since 1869, the island has been the

Although limited public tours of Hart Island have begun, we still cannot visit on World AIDS Day.

Graveyard of over 1 million unclaimed, unidentified, and indigent people opens after decades of stigma New York City's Hart Island, the largest potter's field in the U.S., is opening to the public. It is believed to be the largest single AIDS burial site in the U.S.

Hart Island is the largest public cemetery in the nation as well as the only green cemetery in NYC. It should be a good choice as well as a sustainable one.

We need a plan for Hart Island: NYC’s public cemetery must include the public Most people only learned about mass burials on Hart Island when drone videos were televised showing long trenches with pine boxes stacked on top of one another in rows during the pandemic. The vide…

HIP included in 'Pride 2023 Strength in Solidarity’ — a celebration of unity, love, and diversity in the face of growing adversity.

WATCH: 'Pride 2023 Strength in Solidarity' 'Pride 2023 Strength in Solidarity' is a celebration of unity, love, and diversity in the face of growing adversity.

CBC As It Happens interview tonight. Thanks to Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des Arts du Canada for sponsoring research & creation of Augmented Reality grave markers.

New York's long-forbidden graveyard island to be converted to a park | CBC Radio New York City’s Hart Island may be marked by crumbling buildings and over a million graves — but to Melinda Hunt, it’s a place of beauty.

Hart Island will open to the public later this year.

A Million Bodies Are Buried Here. Now It’s Becoming a Park. Hart Island, a potter’s field where New York City has buried its unclaimed dead for more than a century, will finally accept visitors this year.

The Hart Island Project releases Traveling Cloud Musuem 3.0 with mobile navigation, AR grave marking, Interpretive Guide http:www.hartisland.net

Hart Island Pavilion (1885) and Chapel (1931) backdrop to

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/07/02/hart-island-new-york-cemetery/

She died in a Manhattan penthouse but was buried on an island for the poor Hart Island, the nation’s largest public cemetery, was created for the poor, but increasingly serves a surprising range of people as the pandemic has fueled a surge in unclaimed bodies.