Doll laying in empty lot filled with rubble
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
Among the Last Residents, their playground: Bathgate Avenue and East 173rd Street.
Deserted, desolated buildings: "War Zone"
Teens clean up the rubble in order to create a neighborhood garden.
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
Candido with neighborhood kids
Large, four foot, poster on the side of a building.
Among the last residents, [an] African-American boy standing in rubble, his "neighborhood," with abandoned buildings in the background.
Mel Rosenthal in his old bedroom in the South Bronx
Near Bathgate Avenue and East 173rd Street.
South Bronx site of the 1980 "People's Convention" in opposition to the Democratic Party's nominating convention downtown
South of Cross Bronx Expressway, decals belie the truth of destruction for suburban commuters.
Storefronts on East 173rd Street. One with a German Shepard behind the roll-down gate.
Venerable architecture of the period, slated for destruction, Bathgate Avenue and East 173rd Street
Life carries on in the War Zone
Fourth of July, hanging out on the stoop of their apartment house
St. Athanasia's baseball team