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

Shop keeper, Ana, in front of El Cubano Deli

Mikey Nuñez working in the community garden.

African-American congregation in front of church.

The man had left the neighborhood years ago, but came back for drinks every Friday evening

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

Cambodian children in the South Bronx.

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

South Bronx site of the 1980 "People's Convention" in opposition to the Democratic Party's nominating convention downtown

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

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

Mel Rosenthal in his old bedroom in the South Bronx

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

Doll laying in empty lot filled with rubble

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

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

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

Cambodian Buddhist Monastery in the South Bronx

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

Life carries on in the War Zone