The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
The Unmarked Graveyard: Live at WNYC
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We bring you a lot of stories each year, but we don’t often get to share the work behind them. We recently held an event at WNYC’s The Greene Spac...
The Unmarked Graveyard: LaMont Dottin
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Back in 1995, LaMont Dottin was 21 years old and a freshman at Queens College when, one evening, he didn’t come home. His mother went to the local ...
The Unmarked Graveyard: Hisako Hasegawa
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Belvedere Hotel is in the heart of New York City’s theater district. Many of its guests come to see the sights, take in a show. But there are a...
The Unmarked Graveyard: Cesar Irizarry
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Angel Irizarry spent years working as a detective, and in 2021 he set out on a personal investigation to track down an uncle who’d been estranged fr...
The Unmarked Graveyard: Dawn Powell
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dawn Powell wrote novels about people like herself: outsiders who’d come to New York City in the early twentieth century to make a name for themselv...
The Unmarked Graveyard: Documenting an Invisible Island
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For more than a century, it was almost impossible to find out much about people buried on Hart Island. But in 2008, that all changed — thanks in lar...
The Unmarked Graveyard: Angel Garcia
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When Annette Vega was in elementary school, she found out the man she called “dad” wasn’t her biological father. But all she knew was that her m...
The Unmarked Graveyard: Noah Creshevsky
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When Noah Creshevsky learned he was dying of bladder cancer two years ago, he decided to decline medical treatment. Soon, he and his husband David wer...
The Unmarked Graveyard: Neil Harris Jr.
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A few years ago, a young man who called himself Stephen became a fixture in Manhattan’s Riverside Park. Locals started noticing him sitting on the s...
TRAILER: The Unmarked Graveyard
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On September 28th, we’re launching a new series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island. Hart Island is America’s largest public cemete...