Bodies of 750 NYers Lost at Height of Pandemic Languish in Temporary Storage in Brooklyn

Nearly 14 months after New York City reported its first coronavirus-related death, roughly 750 people who died at the height of the pandemic whose bodies have not been claimed are still being held in temporary long-term storage by the medical examiner’s office at a pier in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighborhood. The temporary morgue was created during the worst of the…