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Smoking Crack--Malnourished since she seldom eats, Donna's eyes bulge, her skin is cracked. Here, on the floor of a car, she pulls a crack pipe.

Donna Hooking--Donna,24, is one of East New York's crack addicts and prostitutes. The mother of a three year old boy, she performs oral sex on those who approach her for $5, the price of a vial of crack.

Graveside--At Cypress Hills Cemetery, Abigail Morales weeps for her daughter Lisa. Behind her is her 20-year old daughter Gracia, Gracia's three-year old and the one year old left behind by the deceased.

Her Daughter's Blood--In the Morales family album along with a photo of the dead 19-year old, is a bloody paper bag, a remebrance of the murdered Lisa, shot by a bullet intended for her boyfriend.

China Shooting Up--China is speedballing heroin and cocaine inside his home, which functions for others as a crack house.

Memorial--All around East New York are hand painted memorials to the dead, to the innocents murdered in the unending waves of violence.

Jumping on Springs--Near sunset, children just out of school leap from mattress springs placed in front of a block of vacant buildings.

Wedding--Still there is hope and beauty in this harsh place called East New York-a wedding party leaves a chapel on Eastern Parkway.

Paul and Nike Tsongas sleep on the plane from Georgia to somewhere.

Candidate Paul Tsongas demonstrates his good health by swimming the butterfly for the press before the New Hampshire Primary.