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

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.

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

Deserted, desolated buildings: "War Zone"

Doll laying in empty lot filled with rubble

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

Candido with neighborhood kids

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

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

Life carries on in the War Zone

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

South of Cross Bronx Expressway, decals belie the truth of destruction for suburban commuters.

Among the Last Residents, their playground: 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

Near Bathgate Avenue and East 173rd Street.

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

Mel Rosenthal in his old bedroom in the South Bronx

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

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

Paulina and her dog, Bathgate Avenue