PM Daily, August 4, 1941
“Our photographer tried to buy gas last night at Brick’s Service Station, Seventh Ave. and 20th St., but it wasn’t selling any…”
Weegee Daily, August 4, 2013
1941
Weegee Daily… July 31, 1941… Rocco Finds His Pal Stabbed…
PM Daily, July 31, 1941, p.17
Rocco Finds His Pal Stabbed
PM Daily, July 31, 1941, p.16-17
Weegee Daily, July 31, 2013
No Rocco… No, no Rocco…
Weegee Daily, July 31, 2013
No, no, no Rocco…
Something interesting happened almost everywhere in the Naked City… these are a few highlights of the colorful history of 62 Stanton St. from the NY Times:
Weegee Daily… July 30, 1941… Waterfront Shooting
PM Daily, July 30 1941
Weegee Covers: A Waterfront Shooting
Weegee Daily, July 30, 2013
Ceegee Covers… Nothing
Weegee Daily… July 27, 1941… “Most of the crowd was dog tired…”
PM Daily, July 28, 1941
After the Flood, workmen stood up to their eyebrows repairing this crater at 125th and Lexington Ave.
PM Photo by Weegee
Weegee Daily, July 2013
WD Photo by Google Street View
The Daily News gave extensive coverage of the flood, with several photos:
The New York Herald Tribune gave extensive coverage to the flood, with a few photos:
The New York Times gave extensive coverage of the flood, with no photos:
The New York Post barely mentioned the flood:
Weegee Daily… July 27, 1941… “East Side Fire…”
PM Daily, July 28, 1941, p. 18
“East Side Fire: Landlord Weeps As Porter Burns to Death”
PM Photos by Weegee
Weegee Daily, July 28, 2013
East Side Tenement Still Stands
WD Photos by Ceegee
PM Daily, July 28, 1941, pp. 18-19
As previously mentioned, this is one of the greatest page spreads in the history of newspapers, if not the history of the printed word (or the not-oral history of the world)… One page (page 18) with six Weegee photos and the facing page (page 19) with five photos of real, honest-to-Greenwich Village poets, including the effervescent, if not immortal, Joe Gould…
Geller and Fuhrer had telephones:
A few of the other NYC newspapers, The New York Times and The New York Herald Tribune, didn’t cover this story at all. Perhaps the editors thought this story, and the tenement dwellers in the lower East Side, were not significant enough to be covered. (Or perhaps they were to busy covering the halva crisis in Turkey:-)
The Daily News covered the fire, with a single small uncredited photo and three paragraphs.
Here are a few of the ways the story appeared in different editions of The Daily News:
New York Daily News, July 28, 1941
A quick comparison:
PM Daily: “… the body of Negro superintendent, Joseph Devine, who suffocated in the basement.” “Shirley”
Daily News: “… Joseph Devine, colored janitor, was trapped in his bedroom and burned to death.” “Shirlee”
This story, more than most, shows the collaboration and symbiotic relationship between Weegee and PM. It was one of a many fires in 1941, and except for the death of Mr. Devine, unexceptional, but Weegee’s six photos that fill an entire page…
There was no other publication and no other photographer that could produce and document a story like this, with words and images…
Google Street View of 321 Houston St.
According to a popular (un)real estate website a three bedroom apartment (or, “full floor loft”) at 321 East Houston St. (built in 1930), rented for $4340, in June 2013…
July 27th was a busy day for Weegee, at around 5:30 AM, Weegee covered a fire on the Lower East Side, (only about 15 blocks from his home).
And 12 hours later, around 5 PM, a 36 inch water main break on 125th St. caused significant flooding, a fire, and traffic tie ups…
To be continued…
72 years ago today… It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity… “Tattooed Woman Makes Big Mistake on Bowery”
New York Herald Tribune, July 24, 1941
“Tattooed Woman Makes Big Mistake on Bowery
Mildred Hull, forty-five years old, a tattooed woman and tattoo artist… with a natural distaste for the commonplace, threw a bottle at a friend who had made a conventional remark about the weather. The bottle struck a police radio patrol car.
The incident occurred in front of Ms. Hull’s tattooing establishment at 2 1/2 Bowery… Miss Hull let the bottle fly with an uninhibited swing…
Both went to jail.”
“No immediate plans to go underground…”
New York Herald Tribune, July 1941
“Museums Plan Shelters for Art In Case of War”
“From the shade of the old apple tree, to a pie for you and me.”
New York Herald Tribune, July 1941
Weegee Daily… June 8, 1941… The Cumfort Hotel…
PM Daily, June 8, 1941
“The Cumfort Hotel, an unoccupied flop house at 21 Bowery, was swept by fire yesterday. Battalion Chief Patrick Carey and Fireman Thomas Deady fell from a ladder while climbing to the roof. Here is Deady being taken to a hospital where he was found to be suffering from concussion of the brain. Chief Carey suffered only bruises.
PM Photo by Weegee
Weegee Daily, June 8, 2013
The Cumfort Hotel is now the Confucius Florist…
WD Photo by Google Street View (There should be Google Street View at night.)
To be continued…
Weegee Daily… June 1, 1941… And End to Liberty…
PM Daily, June 1, 1941
An End to Liberty
“This rhesus monkey went AWOL from his unknown owner and tore around Duane Street until ASPCA inspectors cornered him in the girls room of the Star Bookbinding Co. Tom Barnshaw lured him with a banana.” Photo by Weegee
Weegee Daily, June 2, 2013
Liberty Forever…
Approximate site of 66 Duane St… A place of remembrance… A scared site… The African Burial Ground National Monument…
Photos by Ceegee
NYPL Direct Me, 1940 phone book…
African Burial Ground and Google Maps (no street view allowed on that part of Duane St.).
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