Near Bathgate Avenue and East 173rd Street.

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

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

Among the Last Residents, Mother and daughter, East 173rd Street

Kids fencing, Bathgate Avenue and 174th St.

Paulina and her dog, Bathgate Avenue

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

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

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

Cambodian Buddhist Monastery in the South Bronx

Junior high school student, Bathgate Avenue.

A Child's Playground. Bathgate Avenue

173rd Street and Morris Avenue, southwest corner. Apartment building

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

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

[Looking west along 173rd Street from Ft. Washington Avenue.]

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

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

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