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Since 1869, more than one million New Yorkers have been buried on the 131-acre strip of land called Hart Island, the nation’s largest public cemetery. They have arrived in plain wooden caskets, which inmates (and, more recently, contracted laborers) usually stack three deep in trenches. Small white posts mark the plots with reference numbers. Due to restrictions, few visitors are allowed.

“Hart Island is like a shadow of New York City,” Justin von Bujdoss, the cemetery’s chaplain (giáo sĩ, cha tuyên úy), told Time’s W.J. Hennigan in 2020. “It reflects the lives of people who live on the margins—the homeless, the sickly, the neglected, the forgotten and overworked.” He added, “No one lives their lives believing it will end here.”

Now, officials are aiming to bring Hart Island, currently the site of more than 1,000 burials each year, out of the shadows by making the potter’s field into a park. The project is a way to offer the public a view into the history of the island, which is located off the Bronx in the Long Island Sound. It has also held a psychiatric hospital, reform school, homeless shelter, military base and jail over the course of the 19th century.

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