Hart Island is New York City’s potters field ... a tuberculosis hospital, a Cold War Nike missile base, and a training camp. Many of these buildings and structures still stand abandoned ...

The guided tours reveal Hart Island’s past through stories of inmates who performed the burials. Visitors are also introduced to historical landmarks, such as a decommissioned Nike missile silo ...

The Hart Island ferry arrives at City Island in ... drug rehabilitation center and as a Cold War military Nike missile base, it had a church and a power plant and other buildings.

Hart Island is no stranger to society’s outcasts. At various points in time, the island has housed a prison workhouse for juvenile delinquents, a tuberculosis hospital, a missile base ...

For more than a century, New York City’s Hart Island has served as a burial ... In 1955, the government installed barracks and a missile base on the island during World War II.