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

Cambodian children in the South Bronx.

The daily domino game in front of the Social Club

The man had left the neighborhood years ago, but came back for drinks every Friday evening

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

Candido with neighborhood kids

African-American congregation in front of church.

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

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

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

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

Mel Rosenthal in his old bedroom in the South Bronx

Shop keeper, Ana, in front of El Cubano Deli

Fourth of July, hanging out on the stoop of their apartment house

South Bronx site of the 1980 "People's Convention" in opposition to the Democratic Party's nominating convention downtown

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.

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

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

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