In 2019 it was possible to get secured passes to take a restricted ferry to Hart Island, the New York City potters field:

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Back then, guests were not allowed to take any photos and had to strictly follow the guide from the Department of Corrections at all times (laboring convicts were on the island).  

A year later, Hart Island would be in the news as the location where a number of COVID-19 victims were being interred.  

You may have seen images of the island and burial (drone footage):

Below is an illustration from an 1890 book that shows a view of the city morgue and the poor identifying their loved ones before being interred on Hart Island:  

During the COVID-19 crisis in 2020, Randall's Island was the staging point of refrigerated trucks leased by the city in case they were needed as temporary morgues to supplement and expand capacity at New York City hospitals.  

East Harlem's centrality for Manhattan/The Bronx/Queens made Randall's Island a perfect site to locate these trucks in 2020.

As Seen In Harlem

An inventive, adaptive reuse for a sink strainer.