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

Near Bathgate Avenue and East 173rd Street.

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

Deserted, desolated buildings: "War Zone"

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.

Venerable architecture of the period, slated for destruction, Bathgate Avenue and East 173rd Street

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

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

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

Doll laying in empty lot filled with rubble

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

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

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

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

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

Among the last residents, [an] African-American boy standing in rubble, his "neighborhood," with abandoned buildings in the background.

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

Cambodian Buddhist Monastery in the South Bronx

Mikey Nuñez working in the community garden.

Candido with neighborhood kids