Weegee Lived Here…

5 Centre Market St., 10/31/2010

Approximate location, as seen from the New Museum…

Pitt St. and Rivington… 10/10/10

Approximate location as seen from the Williamsburg Bridge…

Father was waiting to meet us. He showed the authorities enough money to convince them that we would not become public charges… I think it was twenty dollars…. and then took us to our first home in New York, a rear tenement house on Pitt Street near Rivington.

The two rooms over a bakery were as hot as a furnace in hell. The rent was twelve dollars a month, but in those days who had that kind of money…

Weegee By Weegee, p. 9

451 West 47th St.

Approximate location as seen from West 47th St…