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Neighborhood residents enjoy a barbecue lunch in a vacant lot at the corner of Jefferson Avenue and Ruff Alley in Rochester Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021. Residents of the neighborhood like to hang out in the lot and take advantage of the shade a tree there provides.

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