Bodies Being Buried on Hart Island Again as City Anticipates Increase in Deaths

Back in April, videos and images from Hart Island showed workers burying rows of caskets in New York City's potter's field as the city responded to an influx of bodies during the pandemic.

As deaths declined over the summer, the city stopped burying unclaimed bodies on Hart, instead holding about a thousand in temporary morgues and freezer trucks.

But in September the city started burying THOSE bodies on Hart Island as well in anticipation of another surge of COVID deaths. 

TIME correspondent William J. Hennigan recently visited Hart Island and wrote about it for the magazine. He spoke with WNYC's David Furst.