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Melinda Hunt
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Artist, Director The Hart Island Project
Before building a visitor center on Hart Island city agencies need to reconsider deep trench burials and switch to individual graves. Legislation passed last week ensuring that alternatives to the current burial practice are considered before Parks Capital Plan moves forward.
City Council bill seeks study of Hart Island as burial space runs out
The bill would require the city to analyze ways to make the island more suitable for visitors and resilient to climate change.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The Hart Island Project is pleased to announce the release of Landscape of Hope: A plan to end mass burials in NYC
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The Hart Island Project
Since 1980, 80,439 people have been buried in mass graves on Hart Island. The Traveling Cloud Museum is a collection of their stories.
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October 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Great to meet everyone @Viva la Sound on Saturday, Sept 13
September 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Beautiful day on Hart Island
July 13, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Join us Saturday Feb 22 11 AM-12:30 PM for Bronx Parks Speak-up @CUNY/Lehman College Music Building 250 Bedford Park W, BX NY to discuss Ending Mass Burials in NYC
February 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Join us this Thursday 7 PM for a Bronx County Historical Society webinar on the history and future of the burial practice. Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Landscape of Hope: An End to Mass Burials on Hart Island. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
On April 20, 1869, New York City opened City Cemetery on Hart Island, now the largest municipal cemetery in the nation and New York’s only green burial ground. At the time, Hart Island was part of Pel...
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January 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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