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

Mikey Nuñez working in the community garden.

African-American congregation in front of church.

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

Shop keeper, Ana, in front of El Cubano Deli

The man had left the neighborhood years ago, but came back for drinks every Friday evening

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

Cambodian children in the South Bronx.

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

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

Cambodian Buddhist Monastery in the South Bronx

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

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

B & B Electronics Owner, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, with photographs of himself in Jerusalem before emigration

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

Mel Rosenthal in his old bedroom in the South Bronx

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

Life carries on in the War Zone

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

Muslim children at prayer time during Eid ul-Fitr at the end of Ramadan, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn