Teens clean up the rubble in order to create a neighborhood garden.

When I looked for her to give her the picture, her building had burned and she had moved

Junior high school student, Bathgate Avenue.

Girls posing in front of the Junior High School on Third Avenue

Candido with neighborhood kids

She had been left behind when her family and friends moved out of the neighborhood

Large, four foot, poster on the side of a building.

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Health Clinic had a milk program for the children of the neighborhood

Life carries on in the War Zone

Doll laying in empty lot filled with rubble

Deserted, desolated buildings: "War Zone"

Priest and teens on sidewalk with African- American woman walking by

Mother and daughter pause in the ruins, which is still their home, Claremont Parkway.

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.

South Bronx site of the 1980 "People's Convention" in opposition to the Democratic Party's nominating convention downtown

South of Cross Bronx Expressway, decals belie the truth of destruction for suburban commuters.

Among the last residents, [an] African-American boy standing in rubble, his "neighborhood," with abandoned buildings in the background.

African-American congregation in front of church.

Near Bathgate Avenue and East 173rd Street.