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

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

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

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

Junior high school student, Bathgate Avenue.

Candido with neighborhood kids

Mel Rosenthal in his old bedroom in the South Bronx

Mikey at the bar, next to my photographs. I loved hanging out, having a beer, taking pictures, listening to what people said about the neighbor-hood. People were open and generous with me

Doll laying in empty lot filled with rubble

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

Deserted, desolated buildings: "War Zone"

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

Life carries on in the War Zone

Near Bathgate Avenue and East 173rd Street.

Wadleigh High School

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

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

Their arms were notched like a hunter's rifle. "Show me your tattoos," I said to the prisoners. They did. A fight broke out. They were a box of matches ready to go up in flames.; Police Work

Police Officer Richard Khalaf, a Yemenite American, on duty in Washington Square shortly before being promoted to Sergeant