Out of context Tweets going around about burials in NYC on Hart Island

It has been NYC& #39;s cemetery for the very poor since 1868, with over 1 million bodies there.

Sadly, being buried in a wooden box placed in a large trench on an empty island is pretty common https://twitter.com/Chris_arnade/status/1248420495680143360">https://twitter.com/Chris_arn...
You can read this short essay I wrote about a homeless friend of mine who was buried there https://www.theawl.com/2014/11/a-prison-for-the-dead/">https://www.theawl.com/2014/11/a...
A Prison for the Dead

by Chris ArnadeMillie, the last time I saw herWhen Millie died last year, her foster mother was in a nursing home and her pimp was in jail. Nobody came to collect her body, so the city buried her ...

https://www.theawl.com/2014/11/a-prison-for-the-dead/
Or better yet, go to the Hart Island Project. Basically the result of a long effort by one very dedicated person, @hartisland

https://www.hartisland.net/ ">https://www.hartisland.net/">...
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