She had been left behind when her family and friends moved out of the neighborhood
One of the high school students told me she was going to be a dental assistant. The other two said they wanted to be models.
Teens clean up the rubble in order to create a neighborhood garden.
Deserted, desolated buildings: "War Zone"
Doll laying in empty lot filled with rubble
Mother and daughter pause in the ruins, which is still their home, Claremont Parkway.
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Health Clinic had a milk program for the children of the neighborhood
Candido with neighborhood kids
Large, four foot, poster on the side of a building.
Life carries on in the War Zone
Among the Last Residents, their playground: Bathgate Avenue and East 173rd Street.
South Bronx site of the 1980 "People's Convention" in opposition to the Democratic Party's nominating convention downtown
Among the last residents, [an] African-American boy standing in rubble, his "neighborhood," with abandoned buildings in the background.
People marching: poster saying "South Bronx for Change".
South of Cross Bronx Expressway, decals belie the truth of destruction for suburban commuters.
Venerable architecture of the period, slated for destruction, Bathgate Avenue and East 173rd Street
Mel Rosenthal in his old bedroom in the South Bronx
Near Bathgate Avenue and East 173rd Street.
Paulina and her dog, Bathgate Avenue
Cambodian children in the South Bronx.