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

Venerable architecture of the period, slated for destruction, 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

A Child's Playground. Bathgate Avenue

Kids fencing, Bathgate Avenue and 174th St.

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

Doll laying in empty lot filled with rubble

Deserted, desolated buildings: "War Zone"

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

Junior high school student, Bathgate Avenue.

Paulina and her dog, Bathgate Avenue

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

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

Mel Rosenthal in his old bedroom in the South Bronx

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

Cambodian Buddhist Monastery in the South Bronx

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

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.