While New York remains at the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S., more people are being buried in mass graves in New York City. “It’s a sad topic.
Imagine anyone who passes away and there’s no one there to claim the body,” said New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio during his daily news briefing on Friday.
The city has used Hart Island to bury New Yorkers with no known next of kin or whose family are unable to arrange a funeral since the 19th century..