Photographs of Everyday African-American Pride in Queens – NYTimes.com

Photographs of Everyday African-American Pride in Queens

A photographer goes back to St. Albans, a Queens neighborhood that has been a proud middle-class African-American enclave.

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Elias Williams began photographing life in the southeastern Queens neighborhood of St. Albans, where he grew up, after the foreclosure crisis wrecked much of the largely black and middle-class community.