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

Junior high school student, Bathgate Avenue.

A Child's Playground. Bathgate Avenue

Kids fencing, Bathgate Avenue and 174th St.

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

Venerable architecture of the period, slated for destruction, Bathgate Avenue and East 173rd Street

Near Bathgate Avenue and East 173rd Street.

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

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

Shop keeper, Ana, in front of El Cubano Deli

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

Cambodian Buddhist Monastery in the South Bronx

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

Mikey Nuñez working in the community garden.

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

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

African-American congregation in front of church.

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

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