mrs graves. i'm a new yorker and i believe that new york is more than you know the old idea of the city on the hill new york is really what. america is about. and there is a a tragedy inherent in i'm a big metropolis. there are all these stories of the chance has gone by the mistakes of a 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 mine is in from the center carrying the cloning of the bill buoy from your body city island tolling its fist for warning. all around is desolate and. no kind hand to decorate these graves was trophies of love the number ends. on even a headstone show with others and turned what was once a human be. my

baby was already sick so already knew. there was a 5050 chance of him living or dyin. who 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 welfare day after day and day after day week that i was given. and they said no. and at that 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 lol now here loving actually literally. i can't be

ungrateful because mean living. on the public assistance will your city has been. helping my children a lot. but when it costs my son day fell to me completely because i put all my trust on nothing i put my child's body in dear hands and bury him. you know it's not the way i want but i figure at least he's going to be buried. he'll be a piece he says he wasn't.

100 island is open to new yorkers 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 america is the center with publishing industry is 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 vanderbilt's you have the reality of the 5 points the slums the very very difficult lives lives by most new yorkers that is to say the working class and the cool. new yorkers forced to create 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 in the harbor or in the rivers what do you do with these bodies most of them totally anonymous these folks went to heart 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 the city huge inequalities and they're 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 or just lost to each other 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 hard 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 winning but there were a lot of great times was with bruce why. 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 then 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 if he is he ok what is he doing is he living on the streets even 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. 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 hid his body for 3 years is crazy. the crisis and so the crisis began is that the way is to be now there is just one crisis on top of another raid on the world one starts and one stops and it's just a multiple crises stacked up you know right there and sunny and you're thinking to

yourself my goodness gracious what happened. when you all know it's coming through and spoke to me if somebody would have been put to spend my life thank goodness i wouldn't destroy it closer to the salt it was clear. every night we were attacked by the arabs oh we will attacking them and we will extremely shocked. but that's not possible oh i'll meet those moved to such scenes and then the soldiers sent my son from the. house with all the prison war we've all gotten over they all. believe much 2nd most citizens in the. most like and i think in my head that there is no way to be able to group together

without. tom. wasn't under make no certainly no borders and just plotting to nationalities. as american people temperature of the we don't actually mean the whole world needs to be. judged as coming crisis this distance and. we should. everyone is contributing each way but we also know. this crisis will not go on forever the challenges created with the response has been masked so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together.

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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 yes then i met. he is not america. he is a slave that built america. this is due to some other 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 iraq has been at the time of 8060 was being conversed into champ aster. there was must. it is over $200.00 valves and so is the code. it was not america at that time it was rather see in the south and knew you up in the north and what brought us together was this of a war. wasn't policemen 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 phil ochs are indications that a soul a few bodies that still remain. in the us knocking at the door who is there to open it a correctional department. of 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 that department of welfare pulled out of hard allied and left the department of correction in charge of these

fair else. so it used to be that there was a dad house staff at the end of 26th street and a doc 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. airshow rudely down a slide like the various merchandise and as they strike the deck we hear the thud of the body and it's rude receptacles. business is good to do this shar on of the stick says. as we count the coffins heaped up her mysteriously

we think so too. 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 and 6 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. a foot 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 used to parker. there is no aristocracy. i 1st heard of heart alan the problem at this is sharon who was at harlem hospital and she was talking about incense that

were born at dicta to crack and that they were buried in shoe boxes a 1000 other time on her valent. 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. and these are young man convicted at mr me interests like turnstile johns day christine the so you know they're not felons or anything like that but they're young men that couldn't afford a good lawyer. oh 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 it was crying and stuff like that in him we used to so we'd end in drugs and stuff i got in our one of getting caught with possession and i were not going to regular order for a little bit of time. it knows daisy was it was all you can get anything you need a knife or a anything is one great one term the guy had a gun in there it was 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 strength and they gave me a job in hard trial and. next you know they put some shackles on you and you end it in a big you know a little bus and then they take you on a boat i'm a little skid could army hand cause i'm on a book to get the boats going to go down i think the worst or whatever and they

take you to harsh on him and. i still didn't know that hans i was proudest feel i heard of polish people in movies and stuff like that but i didn't i didn't even know what he meant. and there's only 2 officers no friends no nothing and it was just smell and 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 would in boxes and we're going to move them to put more boxes in there. and the people down there john doe's all people that nobody want to pay for people when they get lost in the system they were like if i did they do with a big hole. they would get a call for it in the grate and the guys we all talk about them and they they would

just say crack babies even know who knows where they were there for but they're there for the mentality they had that does what those were like undesirables or whatever they encounter or whatever. when our mayor took office 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. the difficulty in government especially when you're the mayor and you're managing a very large city the priorities of the public take shape and become the most important issues you address. and that many people bring her down into it like that

officials attention. 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 existed in the 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 for god. and you have of you know a situation you couldn't make up in which you have the corn for god people who are alive and are in jail who are burying the poor and forgotten people who are dead. the. childes seem wrong but old roles just don't hold. the old days yet to shape out just they become educated and gain from it because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds

apart. just to look for common ground the. we 1st like when you all know us coming through inspect the property if somebody would've been told me because i'm going to spend my life took time to get it out or destroy course i would have sold it was clearly seen. 2 every night although we were attacked by the arabs or we were all attacking them and we will extremely shocked and saying that's not possible i'll meet doesn't often do such scenes and then disorder sent my son from the constant can of. the house without the prison or with our god with over all they are. really much sick and close citizens in the on call. terms like they like to give

my head that there is no way to be able to live together without tearing down the street how lovely it. is you'll be a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation or community. are you going the right way or are you being legs. dilate. what is truth was is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or a maid in the shallows. the

world is driven by dreamers shaped passengers those with. no dares thinks. we dare to ask. a new gold rush is underway and gonna thousands of illiquid workers are flocking to the gold fields hoping to strike it rich here's the good. is that your particles that work children are torn between gold. my family was very poor i thought i was

doing my best to get back to school which side will have the strongest appeal. the number of victims grows as israel's shelling of gaza runs a 2nd week marty speaks to a 10 year old girl who witnessed the destruction of her own neighborhood. every day at night. even in fear of the missiles in the mornings we hear the cries and screams of people i'm just going in with a shyness myself but. i think part of me while air raid sirens continue to sound that israel with pensioners particularly vulnerable to attack. in new paltz and learn if. it's holiday entire flat left keeps me strong but lots of people that are left here. and a huge us what put the cell to israel is causing friction.