36 new york | august 19–september 1, 2019
LONG ISLAND SOUNDHART ISLAND
In August 1971, 18,000 young people took a ferry from City Island, in the
Bronx, to Hart Island, then as now the city’s burial ground, for a drug-and-
alcohol-free music festival to raise money for Phoenix House, which for
a short time ran an addiction-treatment center there. “On the mile-long
Island, young people in jeans and co hirts lounged around ious
festival grounds, enjoyed hamb d pizzas, went on rid d
baseballs for Kewpie dolls and li several rock bands in ”
according to one account. Four pot smokers were asked to leave the island.