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

A Child's Playground. Bathgate Avenue

Paulina and her dog, Bathgate Avenue

Kids fencing, Bathgate Avenue and 174th St.

Near Bathgate Avenue and East 173rd Street.

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

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

African-American congregation in front of church.

Life carries on in the War Zone

Candido with neighborhood kids

"Racial Attacks Must Stop", South Bronx residents speak up with a sign

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

People marching: poster saying "South Bronx for Change".

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

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

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

St. Athanasia's baseball team

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

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