no tool in between gold. from me was very poor i thought i was doing the my best to get back to see which side will have the strongest appeal. was a pandemic no certainly no borders and islam to nationalities. as america we caught up with turkey we took a back seat the whole world needs to be. judged as coming every crisis at least this time to. do better we should know better. everyone is contributing each or our own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges created with the response has been must so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in

it together. i 1st heard about hart island when i was working on a story about a formerly homeless man he had lived in the tunnels underneath penn station and i

think. there was this a photographer who photographed his little the little house he had made himself there and because of her work he had been rescued he'd been given a home and that he had been found dead in that home and he was going to go to heart island. and it was there was such sadness at the idea that this man who had finally achieved a home of his own was going to be dispossessed it was going to be one of the multitude in these anonymous graves. i'm a new yorker and i believe that new york is more then you know the old idea of the city on the hill new york is really what. america is about.

and there is a tragedy inherent in a big metropolis and. there are all these stories of the chance has gone by the mistakes. bad childhood bad choices or just bad luck. that's something that any great metropolis contends was. but there's something more here. that you could have a loving family a career money set aside. and you could still end up in a mass grave on an island off limits to the public. buried by inmates paid $0.50 an hour.

when rises in from the cell carrying the clang of the bell boy from your large city island tolling its fist full warning. all around is desolate inside. no kind hand to decorate these graves with trophies

of love them are numbered and so. on even a headstone to show with those interred what was once a human being. my baby was already sick so our already knew. there was a 5050 chance of him living or dyin. gave birth to him i didn't have the financial to be able to bury him and stuff so

the hospital gave me. a week for me to you know collect the money. i wanted to the world fair day after day day after day week that i was given. and they said no. and back point i didn't know my real mother i didn't know my real family. so i was like i really don't have nobody. 1000 low now here living actually literally alone. i can be ungrateful because mean living. on the public assistance know your city has been helping my children a lot. but when it comes to my son day shelter me completely because i put my trust. i put my child's body in

their hands some bury him. you know it's not the way i wanted but i figure at least he's going to be buried. he'll be a piece he says he was a. well one heart island is open new york is on the cusp of yet another enormous rush of growth the city's population basically doubled every 20 years. the new york city

is the commercial capital of america is the center with the publishing industry it's the center of fashion and of course next to the glitz next to the glamour next to the mansions being built by 80 steward of the manda built you have the reality of the 5 points the slums the very very difficult lives and lives by most new yorkers that is to say the working class and the cool. new yorkers force to create clothes series of institutions to deal with the realities of tens of thousands of immigrants coming into the city continually. there was a sense i think that these people needed to be separated out that it was people were not comfortable seeing the insane seeing the paupers seeing elderly alcoholics on the streets of new york. and many of these institutions prisons lunatic asylums hospitals all were erected created outside manhattan on these islands in the east

river. there was welfare island there were the quarantine islands and of course ellis island and these were all various processing stations hard island was the terminal island. in the 890 s. early 1900 every spring the police department have to fish out scores and scores of bodies that floated to the surface on the harbor or in the rivers. what do you do with these bodies most of them totally anonymous these folks went to hard island. this is a place that new york has to have to service the reality of death. i think new yorkers understand that there are always going to be inequalities in this

city huge inequalities and they are in very sharp focus. but. in death. we're equal. we all die alone. in today's world you have so many families who are a strange to or just lost which others by distance by misfortune. and yet to know that someone you once loved or that you hoped loved to you is buried in a mass grave on heart island that resonates. trevor.

we got married in 1982 and got married at my sister's house because i never wanted a big wedding i was never the one to be in front of you know where dress and have all these people that you know sometimes you don't even know half of them why would you want them there to want him but there were a lot of great times with with bruce a lot. and when he started spiraling down that was in 84 we moved right next to a bar called lady else we used to go to lady elliston on friday nights got a babysitter for kimberly and he started hanging out with a lot of different people and started drinking heavily. and the bar was right next door which is not the greatest thing didn't think anything of it when we moved to the house. but it happened and.

i remember vodka bottles being under the bed head in you know so and they would argue constantly so. i just remember my childhood not a wonderful. you know i think that he hurt his back out work. and he got addicted to pain medication and then cocaine and then alcohol and he just spiraled downhill. it always enter my conscience i always wonder is he is he ok what is he doing is he living on the streets you know when i would go to manhattan when i was younger i would always wonder if that was him. you know i'd always want to give money to those people cause i felt like that was my dad. like i hope which people don't hope that he was either in the hospital or in jail where i would get that one moment that he was sober and i never got it and the fact that he was in

a hospital and nobody contacted any family members and then his body for 3 years is crazy. the crisis ends and the crisis begins that's the way you used to be now there is just one crisis on top of another you don't know where one starts and one stops and it's just a multiple crises stacked up you know right there for me and you're thinking to yourself my goodness gracious what happened.

the day or thinks. we dared to ask. so in the world today everyone knows america as the land of freedom

and opportunity. because you see me in front of you now. but prior to seeing me here. you didn't know of me except for one thing. he is us then a man. he is not america. he is the slaves that built america. this is the twosome of every man and woman of color. now we at the point when we stumble upon a part of history. that do encounter us as a people of color of honor of respect.

and. heart and rack as. at the time of age 1860 was being conversed into champ aster. there was must. it is over $200.00 pounds and so does the coach. who was not america at that time was a predator see in the south and knew you up in the uk and what brought us together was this of will. was abilities made we would not be free today if it wasn't for those united states called the troops we would not be as

proud as we ought to day. united states code troops would definitely go and i doubt. this still officer indications that a so a few bottoms that still remain. in the us knocking at the door who is there to open the correctional department. never so been humiliated to have a correctional officer. direct me in prayer. in the burials begad in 869 the department of charities and correction was one city ancient city. and what happened more recently was the department

of welfare pulled out of heart out and. left the department of correction in charge of these very else. so it used to be that there was a dead house staff at the end of 26th street and a dock and in the dead have the bodies which. were unclaimed were put in these boxes and then put onto a boat there were 2 steamships one was called hope and the other was called fidelity. the boat backs up to the dead house and takes the coffins with their ghastly freight. here shoved rudely down a slide like the various merchandise and as they strike the deck we hear the thud

of the body and its rude receptacle. business is good today this xan of the sticks is. as we count the coffins heaped up permis curiously we think so too. and we steam away and soon touch it blackwell's island. where the bodies of those who died of smallpox and other contagious diseases are taken on board. charity hospital is also visited and contributes its quota. the coffins are bundled out to men who cart them away into a field handling them as rudely as baggage masters the trucks at the depot trenches are about 15 feet deep can sink feet wide and. the coffins are piled up like wooden cords or fuel in a coal pit 13. as soon as the coffin is placed at the

bottom of the trench a barrel of dirt is thrown over it and another coffin placed above. children's coffins are chucked at the feet of the others and help to form a solid mass. of sort of earth is then thrown upon the upper one until the work is completed. that's all nationalities rest close together the murder. he's a close companion of the thief in the suicide he's just been nice the popper. there's no aristocracy. i 1st heard of heart alan problem

a physician who was at harlem hospital and she was talking about incense that were born addicted to crack and that they were buried in shoe boxes a 1000 at a time on her that wasn't. and at that time hart island was open to journalists and to academics and so i decided that. i was just going to get there. and it just so happened that that. was the very 1st day that these inmates had ever been on hard outlets. and these are young man convicted mr me interests like train style john staying breast feeding the so you know they're not felons or anything like that they're young men that couldn't

afford a good lawyer. or i used to live in red hook that was one of the bad neighborhoods but about to return only brooklyn. new york city was crazy in 89 is crockery and stuff like that in him we used to so we'd n n n drugs and stuff like that in our world of getting caught with possession and i went of going to regular order for a little bit of time. in those days it was it was a zoo you can get anything you get a night for a any day needs one great one term the guy had a gun in there it was like like. gladiator school every day and so when i got short short means that you're going home you don't have a lot of time left in your stack and they gave me a job in a hard trial and. next

you know they put some shackles on you and you end it a big you know little boss and they need take you on a boat i'm a little skid could i mean hand cause i'm on a boat to get the boats going to go down i think the worst or whatever and they take you into hard child and. i still didn't know that hans i was proudest feel i heard a part of steel in movies and stuff like that but i didn't i didn't even know what what it meant. and there's only 2 officers no friends no not been and there was a smell i don't know what the smell was so the next morning is raining and they tell you we're going to go we're going to go to work. we want to do this big whole wave but it was graves and it was mass graves we wooden boxes and we're going to move them to put more boxes in there. and the people out there john doe's or people that nobody want to pay for people when they

get lost in the system they were like 5 de did it was a big hole. it was little coffins in the grave and the guys would all talk about them and they would just say crack babies even though who knows what they were there for but don't know if the mentality they had had those windows were undesirables or whatever they encounter or whatever. when our mayor took our face he was elected because of his campaign and our city being a tale of 2 cities now and has now and those who have not are usually the ones who end up being buried under that. the difficulty in government especially when you are the mayor and you are managing

a very large city the priorities of the public take shape and become the most important issues you would dress. and not many people bring her dial into it like that officials attention. it is out of sight and out of mind to so many new yorkers people just don't care that much unless they have a personal connection. it shouldn't be so removed from the rest of the city. we should know what happens after people we should be able to see. that space. the fact they were using inmates to maintain this active burial site where 1000000 souls are buried where so much of new york city history

is buried is dickensian. and it is a document of the inequality that has existed in this city for centuries. i don't think the states is unique in this respect if you're poor in this world or you're not powerful you get forgotten pretty quickly. and harland is exactly where our society in our country puts the people who are poor and forgot. and you have of you know a situation you couldn't make up in which you are the poor in forgotten people who are alive and are in jail who are burying the poor and forgotten people who are dead.

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