We bring you a lot of stories each year, but we don’t often get to share the work behind them. We recently held an event at WNYC’s The Greene Space in New York City, where our subjects and producers reflected on the challenges, and joys, of tel

The Unmarked Graveyard: LaMont Dottin

Nov 21st, 2023 15m 16s

Back in 1995, LaMont Dottin was 21 years old and a freshman at Queens College when, one evening, he didn’t come home.His mother went to the local police precinct to try to report him missing, and his name was added to a list of thousands of c

The Unmarked Graveyard: Hisako Hasegawa

Nov 9th, 2023 12m 45s

The Belvedere Hotel is in the heart of New York City’s theater district. Many of its guests come to see the sights, take in a show. But there are a few dozen people who call the Belvedere home. Decades ago, they came to New York and rented roo

The Unmarked Graveyard: Cesar Irizarry

Nov 2nd, 2023 15m 51s

Angel Irizarry spent years working as a detective, and in 2021 he set out on a personal investigation to track down an uncle who’d been estranged from his family for decades.But early in his search he made a disappointing discovery: his uncle

The Unmarked Graveyard: Dawn Powell

Oct 26th, 2023 16m 54s

Dawn Powell wrote novels about people like herself: outsiders who’d come to New York City in the early twentieth century to make a name for themselves. For a few years, those novels put her at the center of the city’s literary scene. Ernest Hem

The Unmarked Graveyard: Documenting an Invisible Island

Oct 19th, 2023 20m 52s

For more than a century, it was almost impossible to find out much about people buried on Hart Island. But in 2008, that all changed — thanks in large part to a woman named Melinda Hunt. Melinda is a visual artist who has spent more than 30 y

The Unmarked Graveyard: Angel Garcia

Oct 12th, 2023 20m 38s

When Annette Vega was in elementary school, she found out the man she called “dad” wasn’t her biological father. But all she knew was that her mom had had a teenage romance with a guy named Angel Garcia. Annette has searched for Angel for more

The Unmarked Graveyard: Noah Creshevsky

Oct 5th, 2023 13m 37s

When Noah Creshevsky learned he was dying of bladder cancer two years ago, he decided to decline medical treatment. Soon, he and his husband David were faced with another decision: what would become of his body after he died?This is episode t

The Unmarked Graveyard: Neil Harris Jr.

Sep 28th, 2023 26m 1s

A few years ago, a young man who called himself Stephen became a fixture in Manhattan’s Riverside Park. Locals started noticing him sitting on the same park bench day after day. He said little and asked for nothing.When Stephen’s body was fou

TRAILER: The Unmarked Graveyard

Sep 21st, 2023 4m 56s

On September 28th, we’re launching a new series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island.Hart Island is America’s largest public cemetery—sometimes known as a “potter’s field.” The island has no headstones or plaques, just numbered m

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