The New York Times did a great, lengthy piece on Hart Island a few years ago, which references this project. > Citing security, the city’s Correction Departmen

The New York Times did a great, lengthy piece on Hart Island a few years ago, which references this project. > Citing security, the city’s Correction Department also repeatedly rebuffed The Times’s requests to witness Hart Island burials firsthand. Finally, in March, The Times used a drone to fly around the island’s shoreline and record burials on video. > For a decade, a small band of activists, led by a visual artist, Melinda Hunt, sought access to the island’s handwritten burial ledgers. More than a year ago, Ms. Hunt turned hard-won facts and old images into a website for the nonprofit organization she founded, the Hart Island Project, and shared the underlying data with The Times. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/15/nyregion/new-york-mass-graves-hart-island.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/15/nyregion/new-...