News Drone video shows NYC’s Hart Island, long a mass burial ground, now active amid coronavirus April 23, 2020 Tariq Zehawi and Danielle Parhizkaran, NorthJersey.com Comments Off on Drone video shows NYC’s Hart Island, long a mass burial ground, now active amid coronavirus For more than a century in New York City, the dead not claimed by a family member have been interred on Hart Island, located in Long Island Sound.