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 | | But one can guess it had something to do with their curiosity about the island and its massive graveyard and abandoned missile silos, and their desire to stake a claim, if only for a few hours, to a piece of New York City unreachable by public transportation and all-but-untraveled by city residents. |
 | | In 1950, stewardship of Hart Island was handed over from the Department of Corrections to the Department of Welfare, and many of the prisoners were relocated to Rikers Island to make room for 2,000 homeless. |
 | | That was perhaps the most vibrant era on Hart Island, because six years after their arrival, the Nike missiles were removed, victims of the military's shift in Cold War strategies, and the remaining inmates were sent to Rikers. |
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