African-American congregation in front of church.

Paulina in front of the Social Club before it got demolished.

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

Shop keeper in the next-to-last store on the block. Six months later the store was bulldozed.

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

Paulina and her dog, Bathgate Avenue

The daily domino game in front of the Social Club

Candido with neighborhood kids

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

Mikey Nuñez working in the community garden.

St. Athanasia's baseball team

Cambodian Buddhist Monastery in the South Bronx

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

B & B Electronics Store Owner with children, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn

Venerable architecture of the period, slated for destruction, Bathgate Avenue and East 173rd Street

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

Kids fencing, Bathgate Avenue and 174th St.

A poster in an evening demonstration (against violence and drug use) featuring a silhouette of a long knife and pictures of syringes

Among the Last Residents, their playground: Bathgate Avenue and East 173rd Street.

Junior high school student, Bathgate Avenue.