Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)
Mikey Nuñez working in the community garden.

Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)
A poster in an evening demonstration (against violence and drug use) featuring a silhouette of a long knife and pictures of syringes

Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)
People marching: poster saying "South Bronx for Change".

Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)
Near Bathgate Avenue and East 173rd Street.

Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)
Storefronts on East 173rd Street. One with a German Shepard behind the roll-down gate.

Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)
Young girl at a fire hydrant on the sidewalk

Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)
Priest and teens on sidewalk with African- American woman walking by

Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)
Junior high school student, Bathgate Avenue.

Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)
Among the Last Residents, Mother and daughter, East 173rd Street

Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)
Venerable architecture of the period, slated for destruction, Bathgate Avenue and East 173rd Street

Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)
Deserted, desolated buildings: "War Zone"

Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)
"Racial Attacks Must Stop", South Bronx residents speak up with a sign

Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)
South of Cross Bronx Expressway, decals belie the truth of destruction for suburban commuters.

Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)
Paulina in front of the Social Club before it got demolished.

Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)
The daily domino game in front of the Social Club

Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)
Candido with neighborhood kids

Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)
Large, four foot, poster on the side of a building.

Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)
Teens clean up the rubble in order to create a neighborhood garden.

Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)
Doll laying in empty lot filled with rubble

Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)
Mel Rosenthal in his old bedroom in the South Bronx

Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)
Fourth of July, hanging out on the stoop of their apartment house

Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)
South Bronx site of the 1980 "People's Convention" in opposition to the Democratic Party's nominating convention downtown

Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)
Girls posing in front of the Junior High School on Third Avenue

Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)
Paulina and her dog, Bathgate Avenue

Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)
African-American congregation in front of church.