These small islands off NYC have always fascinated me for some reason. I've read a lot about North Brother Island but, not much is written about Hart Island. Always knew it was a potter's field but, didn't know the island had a much broader history. Would love to see a full documentary about this mysterious place.
I am from the UK. I bought a copy of Melinda Hunt’s book and later visited New York several times between 2002 and 2010. On one of these visits I took the bus to City Island and looked across to Hart Island.
@srfurley Thank you for visiting the Bronx. Good for you! And for her. When I first met Melinda, I was put off. Maybe by the morbid subject, maybe because she was an intense single-issue advocate. But she has gotten results. Can't argue with that.
being here in nyc during covid was madness,remember seeing the mass graves on hart island on the news,its erie seening a mass grave alone,but for paranormal lovers this island is golden for sure,rip to all those souls
You should check out Partridge Island in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. It has a very long history as a quanteen station, grave yard, WW1 and WW2 military station and lots more.
Thank you for this very well done video on the history of Hart Island near New York. I have been fascinated by Hart Isle for decades, but until recently not much had been published. Thanks to the “Hart Island Project” many changes were made to help people locate and physically visit their loved ones buried there. I’ve tried to read everything I come across regarding this unusual and somber place. Thanks for sharing this!
Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
Hart Island I feel would best be a large park. A type of nature preserve, with trees planted & native flowers. A regular ferry between & as stated public use of the two building to be restored.
Holy crap I suggested this lol Fun fact, the first baby to die of AIDS in the city back during the AIDS outbreak in the 80s is the only person (in modern times anyway) to have their own grave and own headstone. It's encased in concrete since they didn't know much about it back then Also, the first city Potter's Field was at what's currently Madison Square before they decided in Hart Island
i Actually first heard about hart island because of its history as a POW camp from the civil war. the conditions there were terrible and a lot of men died from illness.
Growing up in the Bronx I’ve always known of people being buried there. I don’t think they honestly know how many people are actually buried there. It’s been said that they have dug new graves to find bodies already there unmarked
Look up the Manhattan tribe. There is so much secrecy to the Bronx's history. A lot of wicked stuff and even other wild things we found out growing up there myself.
When i was lived in L.A. from the mid 80's through the early 90's i used to go to Magic Mountain pretty often, I loved riding Ninja, Colossus and Revolution, i also have been on the Edge, Z-Force, and many of the rides you've mentioned, i also got the privilege of ridding Cyclone the week it opened, it was sprinkling the day i went and the steel coasters were on a if its wet we don't run policy, so only the Woodies were running continuously, Cyclone was so new that the wood was still pine wood yellow and you could smell the cut wood
It was a coveted post in the NYCDOC. It was an annex of the correctional institution for men now known as the Eric M Taylor center. The reason was it was maintained by city sentenced inmates. Their primary job was burying the unclaimed dead. On halloween, kids from City Island would land on the island and put bodies around a campfire.
protect yourself at home & out on the go.most people like being big on the screen outside the state..,where save meets no surcurity is needed..good day & B B safe..
Ah, I used to sail near that island several times a week. Spooky indeed. You’re missing the part where the city used the island to incinerate confiscated drugs. Sadly, a few teenagers died during an attempt to dinghy over to Hart hoping to find drugs.
Take a page from Buddhism culture, cremate your love ones. You don’t ever have to worry about them being unearth or put into a mass grave. Just imagine the amount of landscape you would gain from cremation
I agree with you wholeheartedly. My gut feeling is that cremation would even prevent the evolution of ghost stories as we know it. Somehow it seems ghost stories revolve around the buried dead.
Its easy to see why term burials became necessary in other parts of the world. The flesh would dissolve in time, after which the bones would be removed and the ground was ready to receive another. We haven't encountered this in the US yet, and may not except in the major cities due to the increased use of cremation, and now even mulching. Sounds terrible, but its the rapid disintegration of the body over 30 days, at which point all thats left is good topsoil.
Why is the name of the place misspelt in the title of the video? Even references in the comments spell it the right way. How did the makers of this video make such an elementary mistake?
I have a feeling the title has been changed some time since the vid was originally published. There’s an earlier comment about use of the word “abandoned” in the title, but the title I’m seeing on 3 Dec 2024 is “Why Heart Island is Totally Forbidden”. But silly overblown clickbait references aside - arguably they’ve just changed from one to another, as the content proves the place clearly isn’t “totally forbidden”!! - I instantly lose respect for any video with a misspelling of its subject!
New York still uses this as a Potter's Field. I wouldn't call it abandoned in the slightest. Search RUclips. You'll find stories about people trying to locate people buried there.
It is Potters field...People aren't getting buried there because the NYC cemeteries are overflowing 😂 If you don't have family or the proper funds that's where you go
The cost of overreacting to a disease we don’t fully understand is still being felt to this day. 👏🏻 good thing we shut down the world’s economy though huh? Man, that was worth it.
You’re being very misleading and very disingenuous Hart island is there for people that aren’t claimed at the corners office or they cannot afford a private burial in a normal cemetery
Smh covid wasnt so terrible that they needed to steal thise people away from thier family's and burried in the middle of no wear island. who ever was in charge needs to be in prison.
These small islands off NYC have always fascinated me for some reason.
I've read a lot about North Brother Island but, not much is written about Hart Island.
Always knew it was a potter's field but, didn't know the island had a much broader history.
Would love to see a full documentary about this mysterious place.
There is a doc about all the little islands surrounding Manhattan. It was on PBS & had a companion book.
@@mackpines How about Rat Island? I think it was for sale a few years back.
They have prisoners taking care of cemetery . The prisoners are from nearby Rikers Island and they are like the ground keepers..
Good put them to work prison shouldn’t be easy
The first time I heard about Hart Island was from the TV show Pose. In the 80s, the island was used for many of the victims of AIDS
Bravo! another wonderful show. Thank you for bringing this to us!
I am from the UK. I bought a copy of Melinda Hunt’s book and later visited New York several times between 2002 and 2010. On one of these visits I took the bus to City Island and looked across to Hart Island.
@srfurley Thank you for visiting the Bronx. Good for you! And for her. When I first met Melinda, I was put off. Maybe by the morbid subject, maybe because she was an intense single-issue advocate. But she has gotten results. Can't argue with that.
being here in nyc during covid was madness,remember seeing the mass graves on hart island on the news,its erie seening a mass grave alone,but for paranormal lovers this island is golden for sure,rip to all those souls
Another top VOD my man, Keep up the good work my respect is your's...
I have lived in the Bronx my whole life, and yet I am just finding now about Hurricane Sandy’s desecration of the island.
You should check out Partridge Island in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. It has a very long history as a quanteen station, grave yard, WW1 and WW2 military station and lots more.
Thank you for this very well done video on the history of Hart Island near New York. I have been fascinated by Hart Isle for decades, but until recently not much had been published. Thanks to the “Hart Island Project” many changes were made to help people locate and physically visit their loved ones buried there. I’ve tried to read everything I come across regarding this unusual and somber place. Thanks for sharing this!
Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
Great videos and thank you!
Hart Island I feel would best be a large park. A type of nature preserve, with trees planted & native flowers. A regular ferry between & as stated public use of the two building to be restored.
I’ve buried people on this Island in the early 2000s
Holy crap I suggested this lol
Fun fact, the first baby to die of AIDS in the city back during the AIDS outbreak in the 80s is the only person (in modern times anyway) to have their own grave and own headstone. It's encased in concrete since they didn't know much about it back then
Also, the first city Potter's Field was at what's currently Madison Square before they decided in Hart Island
@@this51man Washington Square too, esp. from Yellow Fever ourbreaks.
Great video
i Actually first heard about hart island because of its history as a POW camp from the civil war. the conditions there were terrible and a lot of men died from illness.
*Imagine how haunted the island would be*
i believe theres a paranormal video on either this island or north brother island,either way ohhh yeah it has to be crawling with spirits
@@eastsider85 yeah. the amount of people that have been buried there.
Growing up in the Bronx I’ve always known of people being buried there. I don’t think they honestly know how many people are actually buried there. It’s been said that they have dug new graves to find bodies already there unmarked
Look up the Manhattan tribe. There is so much secrecy to the Bronx's history. A lot of wicked stuff and even other wild things we found out growing up there myself.
Don’t forget about the abandoned Nike missile silo base that used to be active during the Cold War on this island
Maybe you could take your 360 camera and go thru the buildings?...
As a request pls do videos on forgotten Wisconsin history
I never saw the mass deaths youre talking about during covid on tv. Where can i find that information?
this sounds like something from Warhammer 40k
When i was lived in L.A. from the mid 80's through the early 90's i used to go to Magic Mountain pretty often, I loved riding Ninja, Colossus and Revolution, i also have been on the Edge, Z-Force, and many of the rides you've mentioned, i also got the privilege of ridding Cyclone the week it opened, it was sprinkling the day i went and the steel coasters were on a if its wet we don't run policy, so only the Woodies were running continuously, Cyclone was so new that the wood was still pine wood yellow and you could smell the cut wood
It was a coveted post in the NYCDOC. It was an annex of the correctional institution for men now known as the Eric M Taylor center. The reason was it was maintained by city sentenced inmates. Their primary job was burying the unclaimed dead. On halloween, kids from City Island would land on the island and put bodies around a campfire.
protect yourself at home & out on the go.most people like being big on the screen outside the state..,where save meets no surcurity is needed..good day & B B safe..
1:30 Tom Barrett, AKA Long Tom, not Long Tem, as stated.
I grew up in the Bronx, and used to go fishing on the City Island Bridge as a kid as well as Orchard Beach. Good fishing out there
👏👏👏👏👏👏
Ah, I used to sail near that island several times a week. Spooky indeed. You’re missing the part where the city used the island to incinerate confiscated drugs. Sadly, a few teenagers died during an attempt to dinghy over to Hart hoping to find drugs.
Take a page from Buddhism culture, cremate your love ones. You don’t ever have to worry about them being unearth or put into a mass grave. Just imagine the amount of landscape you would gain from cremation
I agree with you wholeheartedly. My gut feeling is that cremation would even prevent the evolution of ghost stories as we know it. Somehow it seems ghost stories revolve around the buried dead.
Its easy to see why term burials became necessary in other parts of the world. The flesh would dissolve in time, after which the bones would be removed and the ground was ready to receive another. We haven't encountered this in the US yet, and may not except in the major cities due to the increased use of cremation, and now even mulching. Sounds terrible, but its the rapid disintegration of the body over 30 days, at which point all thats left is good topsoil.
im glad nyc parks took over make it into A park build A eroison walls
Why is the name of the place misspelt in the title of the video? Even references in the comments spell it the right way. How did the makers of this video make such an elementary mistake?
I just watched the film Island of the Dead🪦🪰🪰 Thanks for sharing this location!
Title and description are incorrect, Heart Island is in Thousand Island region but the one in the video is HART Island in New York City
Wtf??? I just left NY in 2019. This was not on the news AT ALL.
It was. My mother was almost sent there during the peak of the pandemic in 2020 before we claimed her
@@this51man I didnt see it.. but I believe you.
RIP💔
HART Island!
the description is for Heart Island in the St. Lawrence river, not Hart Island. completely different places.
My dads 1st wife is buried there they said he has no rights they we’re divorced & she was an orphan 😢
:19 seconds on the map at bottom left, it says NOWY JORK instead of New York ! 😂
Probably, because it's in polish
I'm sure this is good, but...
Id believevit more, if they spelled the name correctly. Its Hart Island, not "Heart".
I have a feeling the title has been changed some time since the vid was originally published. There’s an earlier comment about use of the word “abandoned” in the title, but the title I’m seeing on 3 Dec 2024 is “Why Heart Island is Totally Forbidden”. But silly overblown clickbait references aside - arguably they’ve just changed from one to another, as the content proves the place clearly isn’t “totally forbidden”!! - I instantly lose respect for any video with a misspelling of its subject!
Abandoned? Why would you even put that in the title?
New York still uses this as a Potter's Field. I wouldn't call it abandoned in the slightest.
Search RUclips. You'll find stories about people trying to locate people buried there.
My father just got buried this month there. He died last month. Going to visit in two weeks
It is Potters field...People aren't getting buried there because the NYC cemeteries are overflowing 😂 If you don't have family or the proper funds that's where you go
0:19 "plus migrants," is an understatement.
Its Hart - not Heart Island.
It is not abandoned.
What do u mean?
They still use it. My father was buried there this month.
Graveyards and golf courses, the greatest waste of real estate.
I live a 4 minute swim from here
Why are we playing “Amazing Grace”? 🤷🏻♀️
My cousin of buried here
It's HART ISLAND!
The Department of Recreation??? That is just perverse.
I'm from NYC. Some of my homeboys are buried there.
Saddest part is I can't visit them. 😢
@@carloscarrillo5107 Yes you can. NYC Parks give tours on select Tuesday mornings.
The cost of overreacting to a disease we don’t fully understand is still being felt to this day. 👏🏻 good thing we shut down the world’s economy though huh? Man, that was worth it.
You’re being very misleading and very disingenuous Hart island is there for people that aren’t claimed at the corners office or they cannot afford a private burial in a normal cemetery
Smh covid wasnt so terrible that they needed to steal thise people away from thier family's and burried in the middle of no wear island. who ever was in charge needs to be in prison.
Seems silly we thought we'd have room to burry everyone
How do you do a doc on Hart Island and literally not mention the AIDS crisis?
"Hart" Island