Deserted, desolated buildings: "War Zone"

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

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

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

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

African-American congregation in front of church.

Junior high school student, Bathgate Avenue.

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

A Child's Playground. Bathgate Avenue

St. Athanasia's baseball team

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

Candido with neighborhood kids

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

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

Cambodian children in the South Bronx.

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

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

Doll laying in empty lot filled with rubble

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