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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 later referred to as  "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 Crow   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"
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Jul 28, 2020
Jul 28, 2020 at 10:52 PM UTC
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Unclaimed (Hart Island)
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 later referred to as  "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 Crow   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"
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