Journalists were given a tour of the potter’s field, and upcoming plans will outline potential improvements to the island.

A boat fire near Hart Island forced nearly two dozen people into the water Saturday night. One person was in critical condition and another was charged with DWI, police in New York City said.

Hart Island, a potter’s field where New York City has buried its unclaimed dead for more than a century, will finally accept visitors this year. Prisoners leveling the ground on Hart Island in 1983.

A boat exploded near Hart Island in the Bronx Saturday night, injuring three and forcing 19 others to swim for their lives as ...

A boat captain was arrested on DWI charges after the vessel caught fire and injured more than 20 people near City Island in ...

The captain of a 35-foot boat that burst into flames off the Bronx shoreline Saturday night and injured 23 passengers was arrested for drunken driving, police said.

The captain of a boat that burst into flames off the coast of Hart Island in the Bronx has been charged with three counts of ...

The boat with 22 people aboard caught fire off the east end of the island, across a narrow stretch of water from City Island in the Bronx, around 8 p.m., Assistant Chief Michael Meyers said. Hart ...

A boat fire near City Island, Bronx injured 22, with one critical. Captain Joshua Brito was charged with DWI and reckless endangerment. Rescuers saved three from water; others swam to shore. The cause ...

Hart Island’s facelift would come over 20 years and would include more shade coverage on the 131-acre site to accommodate a growing number of families visiting the isolated site, according to a ...

CITY ISLAND, The Bronx (WABC) -- The captain of a boat that caught fire and injured nearly two dozen people on Saturday night has been arrested after allegedly driving the vessel while intoxicated.

Every month, a small ferry departs from City Island in the Bronx, making its way to a place most New Yorkers never see — Hart Island. Aboard the vessel are families visiting the graves of their ...