A Child's Playground. Bathgate Avenue

Young girl with crossed candles

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

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.

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

Girl on roller blades, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn

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

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

[Young man dancing at a Palestinian wedding at Widdi's Catering Hall.]

Girls in hijabs at Al Noor School

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

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

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

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

Candido with neighborhood kids

Life carries on in the War Zone

Mikey at the bar, next to my photographs. I loved hanging out, having a beer, taking pictures, listening to what people said about the neighbor-hood. People were open and generous with me

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

Little girl lighting candles, St. Mary's Orthodox Church, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn

A poster in an evening demonstration (against violence and drug use) featuring a silhouette of a long knife and pictures of syringes