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

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

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

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

African-American congregation in front of church.

B & B Electronics Store Owner with children, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn

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

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

Doll laying in empty lot filled with rubble

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

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

Mel Rosenthal in his old bedroom in the South Bronx

Deserted, desolated buildings: "War Zone"

Cambodian children in the South Bronx.

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

Junior high school student, Bathgate Avenue.

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

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

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