October 9, 2003
Hart Island / Potter's Field
May I suggest this site for one of the Openhousenewyork stops:
"Hart Island was purchased by the City in 1868 from the Hunter family of the Bronx for $75,000. The following year it was established as the City's public cemetery for the burial of those persons who died indigent or whose bodies went unclaimed. In the first year, 1,875 burials were performed."
You may have seen it in "Don't Say a Word".
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posted by at October 9, 2003 11:07 PM
