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With map once lost for decades and survey equipment, project hopes to locate hundreds of unmarked graves in potter’s field
A previously lost map of many of the graves in potter’s field was discovered earlier this year. After lying anonymously under the rolling lawn of Oak Hill Cemetery’s potter’s field for ...
The Independent28d
The ‘Boy in the Box’ was finally identified. DNA may now unravel the mystery of eight others buried next to him
The anonymous little boy was given the sobriquet “The Boy in a Box” and later buried by authorities at potter’s field in the far northeast of the city. Thanks to advancements in DNA ...
Buffalo Rising7y
Potter’s Field Restaurant and Pub
On our eternal quest for the perfect chicken wing, my wife and I found ourselves at Potter’s Field… finally. For quite some time, we had heard that the place served up some of the best wings ...
New York Daily News23d
1991 Queens slay victim to be exhumed from potter’s field for funeral after DNA finally reveals her ID
Now they’ll have to wait some more to finally receive her remains — which are buried alongside 1 million other people on Hart Island — New York City’s potter’s field. Judy Rodriguez’s ...
The American Conservative1y
A Baby in the Potter’s Field
The baby-killers have found their first post-Roe martyr. Celeste Burgess was roughly thirty weeks pregnant—seven and a half months. At that point in development, her child would have been about ...
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Hart Island is open to the public – here are other NYC areas built over mass graves
Many of the city’s most popular parks were built over public burial grounds known as potter’s fields. Here are a few of them: While it’s currently one of the city’s most popular and ...