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[WATCH] A Rare Peek at Hart Island, New York City's Public Cemetery for Unclaimed Bodies

2024-12-26T12:00:00-05:00

Hart Island is a tiny and relatively unknown island in The Bronx which is home to at least 65,803 New Yorkers, all dead.

In this video from our friends at WNYC get a rare look at the island, where New York City buries its unclaimed bodies.

Hart Island, the city’s public cemetery, has existed in obscurity for over a century. It’s estimated that a million people are buried here. Some were too poor to afford a private funeral, others died unknown or were never claimed. The island is run by the Department of Correction. No one was allowed on it for decades. But families successfully sued the city for access and it is opening up more and more.

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[VIDEO] Amazing Story of Adopted Sisters Reunited After Taking the Same Class at Columbia

2020-09-12T16:00:00-04:00

In a touching story, two sisters who had never met recently discovered each other after 30+ years while taking the same creative writing course at Columbia University.

More than 30 years ago, biological sisters Lizzie Valverde (GS’15) and Katy Olson (GS’14) were adopted by different families. In the spring of 2013, they met by chance in a nonfiction seminar at Columbia’s School of General Studies. This year, Valverde graduated with a bachelor’s degree in creative writing. Olson, who graduated last year with the same degree, is now pursuing her master’s at the School of the Arts.

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[VIDEO] A Rare Peek at Hart Island, New York City's Public Cemetery for Unclaimed Bodies

2016-10-18T11:03:37-04:00

Hart Island is a tiny and relatively unknown island in The Bronx which is home to at least 65,803 New Yorkers, all dead.

In this video from our friends at WNYC get a rare look at the island, where New York City buries its unclaimed bodies.

Hart Island, the city’s public cemetery, has existed in obscurity for over a century. It’s estimated that a million people are buried here. Some were too poor to afford a private funeral, others died unknown or were never claimed. The island is run by the Department of Correction. No one was allowed on it for decades. But families successfully sued the city for access and it is opening up more and more.

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Vintage Kodachrome Film Shows 1939 Family Life in College Point, Queens

2016-04-11T10:25:25-04:00

These are, I believe, the earliest Kodachrome home movies that my grandfather Gustave Martens filmed with his 16mm camera. Naturally he chose to film friends, flowers, and family - - including my father who was 10 years old at the time. The sea plane that appears at the end is taking off from the East River. The little white-haired lady is my great-great grandmother who was born in the 1860s!

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Relatives Of City's Deceased Press for Easier Access to Potter's Field on Hart Island

2016-02-05T11:16:49-05:00

Hart Island is a tiny and relatively unknown island in The Bronx which is home to at least 64,825 New Yorkers, all dead.

In New York City, there's a little-known island where as many as a million people are buried. It's a public cemetery for homeless people, stillborn babies and unclaimed remains. Visiting Hart Island is a challenge — even for families of the deceased, and now, some of those families are trying to change that.

Check out the accompanying story on NPR for more.

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Brooklyn Artist to Make 2,340 PB&J Sandwiches Over 5 Days in Homage to Mother

2016-01-29T10:57:50-05:00

Ditmas Park artist Jessica Olah has embarked on a crazy self-challenge… to create 13 years worth of PB&J sandwiches that her mother made her growing up in just 5 days.

“I was bringing someone their lunch [one day] and just marveling over the fact that my mom made me school lunches everyday,” said Olah, 30. “I stopped and thought, ‘Wow, my mom made me lunch every day, not only when I was younger but until high school.’ That is a lot of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.”

Olah estimated 2,340 lunches made over 13 years, leading to 468 sandwiches per day for this project. If you want to see Olah live, head to Specials on C in Alphabet City before the last day on Sunday.

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Amazing Story of Adopted Sisters Reunited After Taking the Same Class at Columbia

2015-05-21T11:22:49-04:00

In a touching story, two sisters who had never met recently discovered each other after 30+ years while taking the same creative writing course at Columbia University.

More than 30 years ago, biological sisters Lizzie Valverde (GS’15) and Katy Olson (GS’14) were adopted by different families. In the spring of 2013, they met by chance in a nonfiction seminar at Columbia’s School of General Studies. This year, Valverde graduated with a bachelor’s degree in creative writing. Olson, who graduated last year with the same degree, is now pursuing her master’s at the School of the Arts.

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