Bones Exposed on NYC 'Island of the Dead' Where 1 Million Bodies Rest
By Mindy Weisberger, Senior Writer | May 3, 2018 02:25pm ET
New York City goes by many nicknames: the Big Apple, Gotham, Empire City and the City That Never Sleeps, to name a few. But one corner of the city's Long Island Sound has a more gruesome moniker: the Island of the Dead.
Hart Island, a vast burial site established in the 19th century, holds approximately 1 million bodies, many of them infants. And some of those remains are making a grisly reappearance. [11 Famous Places That Are Littered with Dead Bodies]
https://www.livescience.com/62471-bones-exposed-hart-island.html
