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

Near Bathgate Avenue and East 173rd Street.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cambodian Buddhist Monastery in the South Bronx

Candido with neighborhood kids

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

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

[Looking west along 173rd Street from Broadway.]

African-American congregation in front of church.

Kids fencing, Bathgate Avenue and 174th St.

Shop keeper, Ana, in front of El Cubano Deli

St. Athanasia's baseball team

[Looking west along 173rd Street from Ft. Washington Avenue.]