Doll laying in empty lot filled with rubble

Candido with neighborhood kids

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.

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

Deserted, desolated buildings: "War Zone"

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

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

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

Mel Rosenthal in his old bedroom in the South Bronx

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

African-American congregation in front of church.

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

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Health Clinic had a milk program for the children of the neighborhood

Life carries on in the War Zone

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

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

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

Near Bathgate Avenue and East 173rd Street.

Fourth of July, hanging out on the stoop of their apartment house

St. Athanasia's baseball team