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

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

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

Cambodian Buddhist Monastery in the South Bronx

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

A Child's Playground. Bathgate Avenue

Junior high school student, Bathgate Avenue.

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

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

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

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

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.