Junior high school student, Bathgate Avenue.

Among the Last Residents, their playground: Bathgate Avenue and East 173rd Street.

Near Bathgate Avenue and East 173rd Street.

Paulina and her dog, Bathgate Avenue

Kids fencing, Bathgate Avenue and 174th St.

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

Young girl at a fire hydrant on the sidewalk

St. Athanasia's baseball team

Life carries on in the War Zone

Paulina in front of the Social Club before it got demolished.

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.

Doll laying in empty lot filled with rubble

Cambodian children in the South Bronx.

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

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

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

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.

Deserted, desolated buildings: "War Zone"

Shop keeper in the next-to-last store on the block. Six months later the store was bulldozed.