The invisible island where New York buries its poor and unidentified

I reported on this about a month ago for the first time, it was around Halloween when I took note of some stories on this island.

Since then I have noticed much more attention being paid, in this article summed up the mysterious darkness that surrounds the silent night..

The invisible island where New York buries its poor and unidentified

Where the lonely people in New York City go after they die..

What happens when a homeland New Yorker dies? SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE writes about Hart Island, a place you never want to be .. 

Hart Island is 131 acres and has been uninhabited for years..

It’s on the Western Part of Long Island.

And since 1869, the location has been used as a burial grounds for those who could not afford the luxuries of higher priced funerals and caskets..

According to the eerie report from SMITHSONIAN, 2,000 people a year are buried there, with about 850,000 in all over the past 100+ years..Even more: Dismembered body parts constitute a small minority of the burials. SMITHSONIAN REPORTS:

An estimated one-third of the burials are of very young children. With one exception—“special child baby 1 1985,” the first child to die of AIDS in New York City—the bodies are buried in mass graves..