New York City is now operating a long-term “disaster morgue” in Brooklyn where bodies will be stored frozen inside trucks – a move designed to help funeral directors overwhelmed during the ...

Mortuary and funeral home operators say they are having to turn away bereaved families because they don’t have the capacity to handle more bodies. Advertisement.

Two workers at a city morgue have moonlighted as funeral directors — allegedly using city time, equipment and facilities to store and handle their corpses. Augustus Tucker, supervisor of the ...

The funeral industry was once dominated by family businesses passed down through generations. But that has changed: In 2018, 83% of mortuary college graduates were completely new to the business.

A truck from the medical examiner’s office picks up 19 bodies to bring to Brooklyn’s 39th Street Pier, set up as a centralized pickup location for funeral directors. The morgue workers ...