Super Dummy. Those photos are of Hart Island. New York's Pauper's Cemetery. They have always used Riker's Island volunteers to do the burials. You are the nitiwit of all nitwits.
Here is a story from 2019. Over one million New Yorkers were already buried there.
nydailynews.com
NYC Council passes laws aimed at making Hart Island more accessible
By SHANT SHAHRIGIAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
NOV 14, 2019 | 7:06 PM
Grave site markers indicating plots of individual lots of buried remains stand on Hart Island on Oct. 25, 2019. Located off the Northeast edge of the Bronx, it is the largest public burial ground in the United States. Over one million people have been laid to rest at its 131 acre grounds.(David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)
The final resting place of about 1 million New Yorkers will now be easier to visit.
The City Council overwhelmingly voted Thursday to transfer control of Hart Island to the city’s Parks Department and to require the Department of Transportation to boost access to the site, off the Bronx’s Long Island Sound shoreline.
“Visiting Hart Island can feel like visiting a prison,” said Council Speaker Corey Johnson (D-Manhattan). “Today, I believe we are taking Hart Island back.”
The DOT has about a year to come up with a plan for public travel — including ferry service — to Hart Island, under a bill from Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez (D-Manhattan).
The Parks Department will take over control of the site from the Correction Department, which has long overseen the island.
“We are writing a new chapter in New York City’s history,” Rodriguez proclaimed.
Unmarked mass graves of the homeless, poor and unidentified or unclaimed dead fill Hart Island. Veterans dating back to the Civil War are also buried there. Visiting is allowed a few days a month and must be booked in advance.
The DOC took control of the land in 1968, and it’s been almost entirely closed to the public ever since. It is staffed by prisoners at Rikers Island paid $1 an hour for their labor.
Mayor de Blasio’s office indicated Hizzoner will sign the bills into law.
Councilman Mark Gjonaj (D-Bronx), whose district includes Hart Island, voted against the biggest changes, saying they “leave too much uncertainty.”
Here is another story from quite some time ago. (2014)
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