Haunting photographs show an aerial view of freezer trucks that have been converted into makeshift morgues that hold the unclaimed bodies of 650 COVID-19 patients parked along a Brooklyn waterfront.
The upsetting images show some 50 trucks lined up neatly in the parking lot of the 39th Street Pier in the Sunset Park section of Brooklyn.
The emergency morgues were set up after the city’s mortuary facilities and private funeral homes were overflowing with dead bodies during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, when New York City was America’s virus epicenter.
The city continues to hold the bodies there because 230 of the deceased are of people whose next of kin have yet to be contacted, according to The Wall Street Journal.
A spokesperson for the city’s chief medical examiner’s office said it is not uncommon to hold bodies of those who have been estranged from loved ones or whose contact information for next of kin is old or outdated.
In some cases, the deceased’s next of kin are themselves deceased, according to city officials.




