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

Life carries on in the War Zone

A Child's Playground. Bathgate Avenue

African-American congregation in front of church.

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

Shop keeper, Ana, in front of El Cubano Deli

Candido with neighborhood kids

Junior high school student, Bathgate Avenue.

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

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

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

Doll laying in empty lot filled with rubble

Deserted, desolated buildings: "War Zone"

Cambodian children in the South Bronx.

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

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.

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

Kids fencing, Bathgate Avenue and 174th St.

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

Mikey Nuñez working in the community garden.