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

Doll laying in empty lot filled with rubble

Junior high school student, Bathgate Avenue.

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

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

Cambodian children in the South Bronx.

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

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

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.

Deserted, desolated buildings: "War Zone"

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

Mikey Nuñez working in the community garden.

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

Kids fencing, Bathgate Avenue and 174th St.