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.

Deserted, desolated buildings: "War Zone"

Doll laying in empty lot filled with rubble

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

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

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

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

Cambodian Buddhist Monastery in the South Bronx

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

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

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