Since 1869, still-born babies, the homeless, the poor and the unclaimed have been stacked one upon the other, three coffins deep, on Hart Island.
Corpses are interred in great, anonymous trenches. There are no tombstones. Small white posts in the ground mark each 150 adult bodies. A thousand children and infants are buried together per grave.
It is one of the largest cemeteries in the United States. And the least visited.
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"Corpses are interred in great, anonymous trenches. There are no tombstones. Small white posts in the ground mark each 150 adult bodies. A thousand children and infants are buried together per grave."
I'm not a mathematician, but that doesn't add up to be a million!
I personally have never heard of this.Human beings don't treat each other well at all.
1500 per year for approx 150 years is only 225,000 not one million. So either the numbers used to be higher or they can't multiply. But 1,500 unclaimed bodies per year in a city of 4-10 million isn't that many.
Jimmy Hoffa is under there somewhere!
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