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

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

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

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

African-American congregation in front of church.

Young girl at a fire hydrant on the sidewalk

Shop keeper, Ana, in front of El Cubano Deli

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.

St. Athanasia's baseball team

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

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

Candido with neighborhood kids

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

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

Mikey Nuñez working in the community garden.

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

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

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

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

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