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

A Child's Playground. Bathgate Avenue

Life carries on in the War Zone

African-American congregation in front of church.

Shop keeper, Ana, in front of El Cubano Deli

Fourth of July, hanging out on the stoop of their apartment house

Candido with neighborhood kids

Junior high school student, Bathgate Avenue.

Doll laying in empty lot filled with rubble

Cambodian children in the South Bronx.

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

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

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

Deserted, desolated buildings: "War Zone"

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.

Among the Last Residents, Mother and daughter, East 173rd Street

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

Kids fencing, Bathgate Avenue and 174th St.

Mikey Nuñez working in the community garden.

The man had left the neighborhood years ago, but came back for drinks every Friday evening