Talk:Hart Island

message: I strongly disagree with the move of this to the comma form. Hart Island is not a city, or any kind of municipality. It is a geographical feature, and in such cases, I am strongly in favor of the parentheses disambiguation over the comma.  If a comma is to be used, it should be Hart Island, Bronx, as a neighborhood in List of Bronx neighborhoods. Using the comma with the state New York puts it into the false representation as a census-designated place in the United States, which it is not. -- Decumanus 17:41, 2004 Dec 11 (UTC)
Hi!,
I'll leave all the punctuation up to you.
It is an island in Bronx County.
Supercool Dude—Preceding unsigned comment added by Supercool Dude (talk • contribs) 12:38, 27 December 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I remember watching a short documentary film about a small island in NYC where prisoners bury stillborn infants. I assume it was Hart Island. But is the island a potter's field in general, or is it specifically for infants? (Sorry for the morbid subject matter) -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 00:52, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: My understanding is that it's still a potter's field, for people of all ages.  --RoySmith 01:06, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Potter's field

message: The article says about 100 prisoners are still held on the island, but at least one source says all prisoners were removed to Rikers in 1991. The Corrections website also makes no reference to a current facility on the island. Can anyone confirm this from a source? --Dhartung | Talk 20:05, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: According to , In 1966, the jail was closed and the Island was used as a center for the Phoenix House narcotic rehabilitation program. This program was discontinued in 1976 and the Island returned to the Correction Department. However, the Department did not operate the Island as a jail until 1982, when a small prisoner contingent was again housed there. In 1991, the inmates housed on Hart Island were transferred to Rikers Island.  I'll fix up the article.  -- RoySmith (talk) 20:19, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The prisoners apparently "commute" daily by boat back and forth to Hart Island. http://hartisland.net/wwwebs/Home/History/tabid/64/Default.aspx  Wordreader (talk) 00:43, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prison 

message: The article talks about a certain "Mrs. Hart" donating the land to New York City. I have a published source which says the land was purchased from the Hunter family, as I have now put forth in the article. Therefore I have edited the article to note that the Mrs. Hart claim is just an urban legend. If there is any published source which supports the Mrs. Hart claim, then I will be happy to remove the urban legend description. Otherwise, the information is suspect. Who seriously trusts local legends? Galanskov 07:57, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Mrs. Hart

message: Was a prisoner of war camp established on Hart Island in 1863?  Jim.henderson 16:09, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: POW

message: In the article's cemetery section, there are two different references to how people are buried: "Inmates stack the pine coffins in two rows, three high and 25 across", and "Adults are placed in cardboard cartons costing $54, and are stacked three coffins high and two coffins across" - quite the difference. Which is it? The source is a NY times article that is not reachable.
Ouze 11:41, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Method of Burial

message: Please, could someone check the Cemetery section of the article. I noticed that there are information twice in different places. The dublication doesn't bring any additional information but structure should be checked.--Hannu (talk) 14:31, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: The Cemetery section of article

message: User:Texkayaker inserted the following comment in the article:
:I was stationed on Hart Island with the Nike Base from 1955 thru 1958. There were never any Silos on Fort Slocum, only the Radar was located there. It was great duty on Hart Island for the military there.
I moved it here because this kind of commentary does not belong in articles, but it appears to indicate a possible error in the article. --Orlady (talk) 23:57, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Commentary

message: I took these links out of the article. epicgenius (talk) 22:22, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Further reading 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: Moved.(closed by non-admin page mover)  Sennecaster (Chat) 01:06, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 3 March 2023