Corey Johnson gets serious about fixing an ‘indefensible’ Hart Island
New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson plans to mount an aggressive effort to turn Hart Island — the potter’s field where prisoners bury New York’s poor in mass graves — into a more publicly accessible cemetery.
And he says he'll do so even if it means overriding the will (and veto) of Mayor Bill de Blasio.
“Once you visit Hart Island, it's very apparent and clear that the current state of affairs on Hart Island is..." Johnson paused to find the right word: "indefensible.”
