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New York City to Allow Visits to Grave Sites on Hart Island
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/09/nyregion/new-york-city-to-allow-visits-to-grave-sites-on-hart-island.html-snip-
In a major policy shift governing the potter’s field run by New York for the burial of unclaimed bodies, the city has settled a lawsuit and will allow relatives to visit grave sites on Hart Island, off City Island in the Bronx.
The city’s Correction Department, which runs burial operations on Hart Island, settled a class-action lawsuit brought by the New York Civil Liberties Union on behalf of relatives of people buried there, in a settlement that both sides called historic.
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