She had been left behind when her family and friends moved out of the neighborhood
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
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Health Clinic had a milk program for the children of the neighborhood
Candido with neighborhood kids
Mikey Nuñez working in the community garden.
When I looked for her to give her the picture, her building had burned and she had moved
Teens clean up the rubble in order to create a neighborhood garden.
The daily domino game in front of the Social Club
Among the last residents, [an] African-American boy standing in rubble, his "neighborhood," with abandoned buildings in the background.
Man holding American flag
Fourth of July, hanging out on the stoop of their apartment house
African-American congregation in front of church.
Girls posing in front of the Junior High School on Third Avenue
Paulina in front of the Social Club before it got demolished.
Shop keeper in the next-to-last store on the block. Six months later the store was bulldozed.
[Young man dancing at a Palestinian wedding at Widdi's Catering Hall.]
Shop keeper, Ana, in front of El Cubano Deli
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, Mother and daughter, East 173rd Street
Paulina and her dog, Bathgate Avenue