PM, May 28, 1941 (One Weegee photo made in Times Square)
World War Two (and Murder Inc. and bird) news… (Important day in the history of WWII and the U.S.)
1941
“FDR Has Up-to-Minute Statement for World Tonight”
PM, May 27, 1941, pp. 12 and 13
“Record of a New York Day” (Murder Inc., Museum Therapeutics, War Preparations) – May 25, 1941
PM, May 25, 1941, p.20
The latest in Aimée Crocker, Murder Inc., and pigeon news…
PM, May 25, 1941, p.51 (by Robert Rice)
“How N.Y. Prepares to Defend Itself From Bombers”
New York City prepares for war. (About seven months before they entered the war.)
PM, May 25, 1941, p.51
PM, May 25, 1941, p.52
“Emergency Services are Ready for Action”
PM, May 25, 1941, p.52
PM, May 25, 1941, p.53
“Museum Therapeutics
As far as property damage from bombs goes, opinion is that such large buildings as hospitals and museums would be extremely vulnerable. Museum tycoons, however, are not making extensive plans to stow their treasures for the duration. Only small, movable stuff would be transported. The rest would be left both because moving it would be much too difficult and because museums provide a popular form of escapism during a crises.”
PM, May 25, 1941, p.53
PM, May 25, 1941, p.53 (police headquarters, 250 Centre St.)
“Won’t Be Caught
The co-operating organizations are innumerable, ranging from specialized bodies of engineers, doctors, architects and so forth, specifically devoted to defense to all kinds of civilian organization which have nothing but time, energy and good to contribute.
To sum up: The City Fathers are by no means unaware of the possible dangers to New York in the event of war, and they are preparing to meet them. Probably a larger part of the plans have not yet been made public, Some of them never will be. But if the ominous buzz of enemy aircraft ever sounds over New York the city won’t be caught with its guard down.”
“Record of a New York Day” – May 23, 1941
PM, May 23, 1941, p. 10
There’s something for everyone on this “Record of a New York Day”… Bowery news, bridges, scattered pies, dough, ice cream, crime in Brooklyn, the Bronx, hot weather, tenements, the Lower East Side, kids, a kitten, euthanasia… And more apple news… If the Civil War ended in 1865, then… in 1941 the Civil War was more recent, more contemporary, then 1941 is to us today, in 2020. (A mere 76 years versus 79 years ago…)
A photo that is similar to Weegee’s photo of kids and kitten on a fire escape appears in Weegee’s recently republished book Naked City…
Naked City, pp. 22-23
(Speaking of a Naked City:)
PM, May 23, 1941, p. 13 (Photo by Gene Badger)
“Scene: East River. Time: 3 p.m. Temperature: 90.7
Yesterday’s 90.7 degrees made it the hottest day of the year… The Bronx was bombarded by a freak hailstorm… Cvek, the convicted strangler asked Sing Sing officials why the prison wasn’t air-conditioned.”
“What Happens to These Men Depends on Mayor La Guardia”
PM, December 2, 1941 (Photos by Martin Harris)
“Last week the Board of Estimate adopted a Council bill banishing itinerant peddling from city streets. The bill affects about 10,00 peddlers. Now in the Mayor’s hands, it exempts news dealers and others able to get licenses.”
“…and the Wolf…”
PM, October 1, 1941, p. 12
“…and the Wolf chewed up the children and spit out their bones…
But those were Foreign Children and it didn’t really matter.”
Labor Days
PM, August 31, 1941, p. 18
“Holiday Accidents took their toll as motorists started their Labor Day week end. Early yesterday Joseph Morris and his brother’s wife, Charlotte were killed when this car overturned in Bronx Park. The driver, Anthony Morris, Navy purchasing agent, was injured. Three other auto deaths had been listed last night; the Motor Vehicle Bureau says about 40 will die before Tuesday in New York State.”
PM, August 31, 1941 (photo by Martin Harris)
“Union Members vacationing…Vivian Cherry…”
PM, 1944, p. 13 (photo by John De Biase)
“Here’s the Labor Day Rush at the Holland Tunnel
Our photographer waited around at the Holland Tunnel yesterday to get the Labor Day traffic…”
PM, 1944 (photo by Stanley Kubrick)
“Bronx Motorists Strike Oil
Bogart’s Service Station at 164th St. and Jerome Ave. he Bronx, was a Labor Day rarity – it had gasoline to sell. At 10 a.m. yesterday cars were lined up there for more than a block.”
PM, September 3, 1947, p. 13 (photos by Irving Haberman)
“Harlem Crowds Turn Out For West Indies Day…”
“Weegee has a Salon” and “Storm Ties Up Subways…” – August 27, 1941
PM, August 27, 1941, p. 1
“Storm Ties Up Subways…5 Pages
This inferno-like scene is one of the results of tortential rains that wept New York, causing the worst subway tie-up in history. A lightning bolt hit a gas main in a subway excavation, dropped an auto into the resulting cave-in, stated a three-alarm fire… (PM Photo by Irving Haberman)”
“The Weather Bureau also termed 2.13 inches of rain in that brief spectacular on and one-half hours “extensive precipitation.”” p. 15
PM, August 27, 1941, pp. 15-18 (Photos by Irving Haberman and Gene Badger)
PM, August 27, 1941, pp. 14-15
PM, August 27, 1941, p. 14
“Weegee Has a Salon: Arthur Fellig, the night-prowling cameraman who turns in many of PM’s choicest pictures of fires, wrecks, rescues and crimes, is having a one-man show of his own at the Photo League, 31 E. 21st St. The exhibit will run through Sept. 6.”
“ran wild”
PM, March 27, 1941, pp. 14, 15 (photos by David Eisendrath, Jr)
1001 Afternoons in New York
by Ben Hecht
Daily Star, June 1925
Democracy in Jersey City… And Death on the Bowery…
PM, March 14, 1941, pp.12-14 (photo by Steve Derry)
New York Herald, March 1896
New York Herald, March 1896
The Sun, November 1897
The Sun, June 1898
The Sun, July 1899
The New York Press, October 1902
Evening Telegram, December 1908
The New York Press, March 1913
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, August 1914
The New York Press, March 1915
New York Call, March 1915
Evening Telegram, March 1915
