HART ISLAND MASS BURIAL 1990

Mass burials on Hart Island in the Bronx are conducted by inmates from the NYC Riker s Island Jail on weekday mornings throughout the year. In 1990 Eileen Riley received permission to create a trailer for a film never made. This portion, taken from a VHS tape given to The Hart Island Project, shows a burial process largely unchanged since New York City public burials began on Hart Island in 1869.