African-American congregation in front of church.

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

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

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.

Walk of Faith

Life carries on in the War Zone

Candido with neighborhood kids

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

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

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

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

Young girl at a fire hydrant on the sidewalk

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

Junior high school student, Bathgate Avenue.

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

[Women hugging and clapping at a Palestinian wedding at Widdi's Catering Hall.]

Palestinian woman with flag

Police Officer Richard Khalaf, a Yemenite American, on duty in Washington Square shortly before being promoted to Sergeant

The Graduate

Mar Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, The Patriarch of Antioch and All of the East, at Our Lady of Lebanon Cathedral of the Maronite Church