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Hart Island

Up to a million poor and anonymous New Yorkers have been laid to rest at Hart Island, where the city buries them in mass graves. The site is largely off-limits to the public, but a group called the Hart Island Project is now trying to resurrect the stories of the dead with a new online museum.

(Photo: Hart Island, as seen from City Island in the New York borough of the Bronx. Credit: David Trawin)

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