NYC24 brings you the death issue: eight feature stories about New York City

Six people die and 14 are born every hour in New York, swept into the swirling energy that defines this city. New Yorkers hatch new ideas and identities like clockwork — and just as quickly proclaim their demise.

But for every breathing being, idea or era that dies, there’s someone to salvage it, celebrate it, claim it, recreate it, steal it, gentrify it, fight it or stitch it back together. New Yorkers make do — and generate something new in the process.

In Ridgewood, Nick DiMola curates a quasi-museum of the personal effects of the dead.

In Chinatown, rogue taxidermists stitch together the discarded corpses of small animals.

In Whyt Whey, known in modern parlance as Manhattan, members of the Society for Creative Anachronism relive medieval Europe.

In Green Haven Correctional Facility, George Bell appeals his murder conviction.

In Brooklyn Heights, Doug Biviano answers the phone for a presidential candidate who has already declared defeat.

In a city animal shelter, advocates scramble to save strays from being killed because no one will adopt them.

In Washington Square Park, archeologists find human bones buried near the fountain.

In Willets Point, Eighteen Auto Parts prepares to shutter its doors after 24 years.

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