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

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

A Child's Playground. Bathgate Avenue

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

Kids fencing, Bathgate Avenue and 174th St.

Deserted, desolated buildings: "War Zone"

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

Paulina and her dog, Bathgate Avenue

Junior high school student, Bathgate Avenue.

Doll laying in empty lot filled with rubble

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

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

Cambodian Buddhist Monastery in the South Bronx

173rd Street and Morris Avenue, southwest corner. Apartment building

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

Mel Rosenthal in his old bedroom in the South Bronx

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.

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