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In 2002, photographer Juliana Beasley began a decadelong book project documenting Rockaway Park, what was then a somewhat forgotten section of Queens, N.Y. Making the long journey from her home in Jersey City, N.J., and feeling as if she had gone back in time (not a Starbucks in sight), Beasley…

http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2013/10/18/juliana_beasley_s_last_stop_rockaway_park_examines_the_people_of_an_outcast.htm