African-American congregation in front of church.

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

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

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

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

The daily domino game in front of the Social Club

St. Athanasia's baseball team

Paulina and her dog, Bathgate Avenue

Candido with neighborhood kids

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

Mikey Nuñez working in the community garden.

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

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

Cambodian Buddhist Monastery in the South Bronx

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

Mel Rosenthal in his old bedroom in the South Bronx

Among the Last Residents, their playground: 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

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

Cambodian children in the South Bronx.