With record-breaking coronavirus-related deaths overwhelming morgues and mortuaries in New York City, the public cemetery on Hart Island is seeing an increase in burials—from 24 a week to 24 a day.

NIKE MISSILE BASES (1955-71) were built at 7 sites in Cuyahoga County (with an 8th location in Lake County). The bases, constructed at a cost of $12 million by the M. J. Boyle Co. of Chicago, were ...

As a result, this base — the HM69 Nike Missile Base (a.k.a. “Alpha Battery”) — was built in the Everglades National Park, alongside three other batteries in South Florida. The entrance to ...

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 Parks Department opened up limited visits to Hart Island last fall ... led journalists past a monument to peace built by Rikers Island inmates in 1948 and the site of a 1950’s-era Nike missile ...

HART ISLAND ... the southern half of Hart Island. Details about past facilities on the mile-long island, including a mental health asylum, a military post housing Nike missiles, prison facilities ...

It happened at the Nike ... Beach Island, sank during a nor’easter, killing all 28 men who worked there. Richard Griffith, one of the volunteers and tour guides for the Nike missile base museum ...

It happened at the Nike missile site at Fort Hancock, the U.S. Army base on the northern end of ... a radar station off the coast of Long Beach Island, sank during a nor’easter, killing all ...

It happened at the Nike missile site at Fort Hancock, the U.S. Army base on the northern end of Sandy Hook ... In 1961, Texas Tower 4, a radar station off the coast of Long Beach Island, sank during a ...

The nation’s largest public cemetery — and purportedly the largest tax-funded cemetery in the world — is located just off the Bronx in the Long Island Sound, on Hart Island. The mass ...