TIME Magazineのインスタグラム(time) - 11月24日 06時29分

Just half a mile from the Bronx, Hart Island serves as a mass graveyard of last resort. Since 1869, New York City has owned and operated this potter's field—the largest in the country. City workers put unidentified or unclaimed corpses in simple wooden coffins, load them onto a ferry and entomb them in trenches across the island. The homeless, indigent and stillborn all lie within eyesight of the hyper-kinetic, high-rolling inhabitants of the Manhattan skyscrapers across the water, writes W.J. Hennigan. Over a century and a half, more than a million people have been buried in unmarked graves on the island, including from past epidemics like tuberculosis, the 1918 flu and AIDS. At the height of the COVID-19 outbreak last spring, New York's hospital morgues and mortuaries became overwhelmed, and the mass graves on Hart Island emerged as an expedient option for the city's fast-rising number of dead. Through the end of October, 2,009 New Yorkers have been buried on Hart Island in 2020, more than double last year’s total of 846. Read more at the link in bio. Photograph by Sasha Arutyunova (@sashafoto) for TIME

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