Hart Island is a cemetery for the displaced- mostly babies and the homeless – that sits off the coast of the Bronx and a short boat ride from Manhattan, but that the public weren't allowed to access – until now. Of the one million anonymous graves on the atoll (right), information about 60,000 people buried there can now be accessed on a new website, thanks to a group of activists who for years have been fighting for people to better understand. One woman, Lisa Patto, 45, has finally learned the story of her father Kenneth Selesky (inset top), a homeless man who fell out with as a teenager. New York's forgotten finally remembered: Forbidden island where over one million 'unknown' people are buried in a mass grave reveals its secrets in online database

Hart Island is a cemetery for the displaced- mostly babies and the homeless – that sits off the coast of the Bronx and a short boat ride from Manhattan, but that the public weren't allowed to access – until now. Of the one million anonymous graves on the atoll (right), information about 60,000 people buried there can now be accessed on a new website, thanks to a group of activists who for years have been fighting for people to better understand. One woman, Lisa Patto, 45, has finally learned the story of her father Kenneth Selesky (inset top), a homeless man who fell out with as a teenager. New York's forgotten finally remembered: Forbidden island where over one million 'unknown' people are buried in a mass grave reveals its secrets in online database

Hart Island is a cemetery for the displaced- mostly babies and the homeless – that sits off the coast of the Bronx and a short boat ride from Manhattan, but that the public weren't allowed to access – until now. Of the one million anonymous graves on the atoll (right), information about 60,000 people buried there can now be accessed on a new website, thanks to a group of activists who for years have been fighting for people to better understand. One woman, Lisa Patto, 45, has finally learned the story of her father Kenneth Selesky (inset top), a homeless man who fell out with as a teenager. New York's forgotten finally remembered: Forbidden island where over one million 'unknown' people are buried in a mass grave reveals its secrets in online database