Storefronts on East 173rd Street. One with a German Shepard behind the roll-down gate.
Among the Last Residents, their playground: Bathgate Avenue and East 173rd Street.
Near Bathgate Avenue and East 173rd Street.
Venerable architecture of the period, slated for destruction, Bathgate Avenue and East 173rd Street
When I looked for her to give her the picture, her building had burned and she had moved
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.
Doll laying in empty lot filled with rubble
She had been left behind when her family and friends moved out of the neighborhood
South of Cross Bronx Expressway, decals belie the truth of destruction for suburban commuters.
Mother and daughter pause in the ruins, which is still their home, Claremont Parkway.
Teens clean up the rubble in order to create a neighborhood garden.
South Bronx site of the 1980 "People's Convention" in opposition to the Democratic Party's nominating convention downtown
Shop keeper in the next-to-last store on the block. Six months later the store was bulldozed.
Paulina in front of the Social Club before it got demolished.
Among the Last Residents, Mother and daughter, East 173rd Street
Cambodian Buddhist Monastery in the South Bronx
Mikey Nuñez working in the community garden.
Mel Rosenthal in his old bedroom in the South Bronx
Girls posing in front of the Junior High School on Third Avenue
Young girl at a fire hydrant on the sidewalk