Off the coast of the Bronx at the western end of Long Island before ships landed: the home of the Siwanoy tribe once the training ground of the 31st U.S Colored Infantry Regiment according to records, a prisoner of war camp in 1864 laterย referred to as ย "Potter's Field" or "City Cemetery" then a quarantine station for yellow fever patients as well as a women's psychiatric hospital & a tubercularium on the west side of the islands between an empty 4-acre space lived Solomon Riley's vision of black coney island during Jim Crowย ย after the stay and departure of Pheonix house Hart Island now is the final resting ground for New York City's covid-19 victims whose family could not or did not hire a private funeral director and so they were labeled "unclaimed"
Tragically, over 150,000 people have lost their lives and continue losing them. I saw a picture of a mass grave and traced its location to New York City's Hart Island. I wanted to research what victims of Covid-19 were being buried at Hart Island in New York City's mass graves. I also wanted to explore the location's history in tandem. Overall, it just breaks my heart that federal negligence has contributed to the loss of life. A first world nation with one of its wealthiest cities burying bodies in a mass grave; this is the state of the United States of America. I wish it weren't so.