Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)Teens clean up the rubble in order to create a neighborhood garden.
Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)The Martin Luther King, Jr. Health Clinic had a milk program for the children of the neighborhood
Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)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.
Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)When I looked for her to give her the picture, her building had burned and she had moved
Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)African-American congregation in front of church.
Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)Among the last residents, [an] African-American boy standing in rubble, his "neighborhood," with abandoned buildings in the background.
Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)B & B Electronics Store Owner with children, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn
Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)She had been left behind when her family and friends moved out of the neighborhood
Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)South of Cross Bronx Expressway, decals belie the truth of destruction for suburban commuters.
Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)Doll laying in empty lot filled with rubble
Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)Mother and daughter pause in the ruins, which is still their home, Claremont Parkway.
Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)Girls posing in front of the Junior High School on Third Avenue
Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)Mel Rosenthal in his old bedroom in the South Bronx
Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)Deserted, desolated buildings: "War Zone"
Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)Priest and teens on sidewalk with African- American woman walking by
Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)Cambodian children in the South Bronx.
Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)Storefronts on East 173rd Street. One with a German Shepard behind the roll-down gate.
Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)Junior high school student, Bathgate Avenue.
Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)The man had left the neighborhood years ago, but came back for drinks every Friday evening
Mel Rosenthal (1940-2017)Among the Last Residents, Mother and daughter, East 173rd Street