A Child's Playground. Bathgate Avenue

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

Paulina and her dog, Bathgate Avenue

Kids fencing, Bathgate Avenue and 174th St.

Near Bathgate Avenue and East 173rd Street.

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.

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

African-American congregation in front of church.

Life carries on in the War Zone

Candido with neighborhood kids

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

St. Athanasia's baseball team

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