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New York-based photographer Thomas Prior first encountered the neighborhood as a young kid going to a Mets game nearby. “It wasn’t as beat-up as it is now,” he told TIME, “but it was still so different from any other neighborhood in New York. I’ve wondered what it was like in there ever since.”