Rethinking New York’s “dark shadow”: managing the unclaimed dead on Hart Island, 1869 to the present day by Catriona Byers, Jason Montgomery

“…The site has long been positioned as the city’s ‘dark shadow’, the final resting place of the unwanted, the lonely, the forgotten and the marginalised. Elements of this narrative are undeniably grounded in truth – the stories of those who have ended up here, many of which have been carefully collected by renowned non-profit The Hart Island Project, offer up endless shades of heartbreak, loss and pain. …”
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