Unequal impact
Residents of neighborhoods that were hit hard by COVID-19 were more likely to be buried on Hart Island. In Brighton Beach and Coney Island, where the COVID death rate is almost two and a half times the city’s median, five times as many people were buried in Hart Island in 2020 than in 2019.
Number of Hart Island burials
20
40
60
80
120
Hart Island
Covid death rate
0 – 268
269 – 537
538 – 806
Unequal impact
Residents of neighborhoods that were hit hard by COVID-19 were more likely to be buried on Hart Island. In Brighton Beach and Coney Island, where the COVID death rate is almost two and a half times the city’s median, five times as many people were buried in Hart Island in 2020 than in 2019.
Number of Hart Island burials
20
40
60
80
120
Hart Island
Covid death rate
0 – 268
269 – 537
538 – 806
Unequal impact
Residents of neighborhoods that were hit hard by COVID-19 were more likely to be buried on Hart Island. In Brighton Beach and Coney Island, where the COVID death rate is almost two and a half times the city’s median, five times as many people were buried in Hart Island in 2020 than in 2019.
Number of Hart
Island burials
Hart Island
20
40
60
80
120
Covid death rate
0 – 268
269 – 537
538 – 806
Unequal impact
Residents of neighborhoods that were hit hard by COVID-19 were more likely to be buried on Hart Island. In Brighton Beach and Coney Island, where the COVID death rate is almost two and a half times the city’s median, five times as many people were buried in Hart Island in 2020 than in 2019.
Number of Hart
Island burials
20
40
60
80
120
Covid death rate
0 – 268
269 – 537
Hart Island
538 – 806