Everyone’s a food writer these days. Who doesn’t review on Yelp or Instagram their dinner sometimes, right? But for Dave Cook, it’s more than that. I tagged along to learn more. 

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I went to Washington Square Park and asked a few New Yorkers what they really hate about their city's subway. 

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Hart Island is New York City’s Potter’s field – the place where the city buries its unidentified, its unclaimed and its poor. Since 1875, more than a million people have been put in unmarked graves there. The island is under the jurisdiction of the Department of Correction, which means it’s out of bounds for everybody else.

This July, after the settlement of a class action civil liberties lawsuit, the city government agreed to facilitate visits for family members. Now, once a month, the ferry that takes caskets across to Hart Island also makes a special trip for the living. But for the general public, the gravesites are still off limits.

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