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Hart Island Burials Taken Over By Tree Landscapers, Uprooting Families’ Hopes for Transformation

Nov. 18, 2021, 9:14 p.m.Nov. 19, 2021, 10:09 a.m.
The city’s potter’s field, the final resting place for thousands killed by COVID and AIDS, is now overseen by the Parks Department amid visions of creating the nation’s largest municipal cemetery. But a $33M contract to a firm without cemetery experience, under the watch of an ex-Rikers captain, is raising concerns.
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Researchers Find Signs of COVID-19 Mutations in NYC Sewage, Pointing to Possible Dog and Rat Infections

July 29, 2021, 4:54 p.m.July 29, 2021, 8:43 p.m.
Scientists studying coronavirus in local wastewater say that city environmental officials initially had “zero willingness to help explore this potential public health risk.” Officials stress that the findings are preliminary.
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Bodies of Hundreds of New York COVID Victims Still in Trucks on Brooklyn Pier

May 6, 2021, 7:04 p.m.May 7, 2021, 4:58 p.m.
About 750 New Yorkers taken by the pandemic await possible burial on Hart Island, the city’s potter’s field. City officials, though, say there’s no timetable to transport the fallen from refrigerated units in Sunset Park.
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Help Us Tell the Stories of the New Yorkers Lost to COVID-19

May 8, 2020, 4:00 a.m.June 9, 2020, 10:48 a.m.
Fewer than 5% of city residents felled by coronavirus have been publicly memorialized via obituaries or news s. Work with us to change that.

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