Near Bathgate Avenue and East 173rd Street.

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

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

Storefronts on East 173rd Street. One with a German Shepard behind the roll-down gate.

A Child's Playground. Bathgate Avenue

Kids fencing, Bathgate Avenue and 174th St.

Large, four foot, poster on the side of a building.

Paulina and her dog, Bathgate 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.

Among the last residents, [an] African-American boy standing in rubble, his "neighborhood," with abandoned buildings in the background.

Junior high school student, Bathgate Avenue.

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

Cambodian Buddhist Monastery in the South Bronx

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.

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

Doll laying in empty lot filled with rubble

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

173rd Street and Morris Avenue, southwest corner. Apartment building

Deserted, desolated buildings: "War Zone"