Mel Rosenthal in his old bedroom in the South Bronx

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

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

Cambodian children in the South Bronx.

Doll laying in empty lot filled with rubble

Deserted, desolated buildings: "War Zone"

Near Bathgate Avenue and East 173rd Street.

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

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

Cambodian Buddhist Monastery in the South Bronx

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

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

When I looked for her to give her the picture, her building had burned and she had moved

Candido with neighborhood kids

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

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

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

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.

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

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