Deserted, desolated buildings: "War Zone"

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

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

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

Junior high school student, Bathgate Avenue.

Priest and teens on sidewalk with African- American woman walking by

African-American congregation in front of church.

"Racial Attacks Must Stop", South Bronx residents speak up with a sign

St. Athanasia's baseball team

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Health Clinic had a milk program for the children of the neighborhood

Cambodian children in the South Bronx.

People marching: poster saying "South Bronx for Change".

A Child's Playground. Bathgate Avenue

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

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

Candido with neighborhood kids

Doll laying in empty lot filled with rubble

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

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