i remembered you

By Leyla Vural

This essay is about Hart Island, the place where New York City has been burying its dispossessed since 1869. It’s a place New Yorkers should know about, but mostly didn’t until the Covid-19 pandemic brought it into the news. The piece interweaves the stories of family members and friends of people buried on the island with ideas about how we understand places and the meaning we ascribe to them. Hart Island tells us about us. We pay respects when some die; others we cast aside and deem forgotten.

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