When the time came, Gleny Reyes Gomez knew her father wanted to be buried alongside family in the Dominican Republic. For two years, she’s been working to fulfill his wish. Juan Reyes, an 80-year-old ...

Last Tuesday was the first public tour conducted by urban park rangers of Hart Island, New York’s City public burial ground located half a mile to the east of City Island in the Bronx. But the twice a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (PIX11) — A solemn place full of ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Located about 3,000 feet off the coast of City Island in the northeastern Bronx lies Hart Island. Measuring about a mile long, Hart Island serves as the city’s public cemetery ...

It’s no longer wrapped up in the past. The nation’s largest public cemetery — and purportedly the largest tax-funded cemetery in the world — is located just off the Bronx in the Long Island Sound, on ...

View to Hart Island from City Island in New York City (2016) (photo by Allison Meier for Hyperallergic) New York’s Hart Island, the resting place of over 1 million, is fertile ground for civic good — ...

Last week we uncovered some of New York City’s former cemeteries that are now populated with park-goers and hotel residents. This week, we’re taking a closer look at a cemetery that rarely receives ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- For the first time ever, the NYC Parks Department will be offering public tours of Hart Island, the largest public cemetery in the country. The free tours, organized by the ...