Inside Manhattan, by the great Grant Reynard
(Not Weegee, but Weegee was there…)
1944
“All the people, all the time…”
PM, February 12, 1944
“Teach Me, Lincoln.”
PM, February 12, 1944
Weegee Daily… September 15, 1944… Here’s what the wind did to the glamorous models…
PM Daily, September 15, 1944
80-Mile Winds Lash the City as Hurricane Wreaks Damage Along Atlantic Coast
The big storm broke windows all over town. A night watchman and a policeman clean things up at Cohen’s Silk Store at Grand and Allen Sts.
Here’s what the wind did to the glamorous models in the window of the Edith and Billie Bridal Salon, 271 Grand St.
Noir-ish lighting at Grand and Allen Sts.
Glamorous sweets on signs, and a B, in the window of Natalie Bakery Inc, 271 Grand St.
Weegee Daily, September 15, 2013
Weegee Daily… September 7, 1944… And the Living Suffer…
PM Daily, September 7, 1944
Death Strikes a Truck Driver at Dawn… And the Living Suffer.
Rudolph Supik, 38, of 417 E. 10th St. was killed at 6:10 a.m. yesterday when the bakery truck he was diving colided with a sedan at 1st Ave.. and 7th St…
Weegee Daily, September 7, 2013
And the Living Suffer.
At around 6:10 p.m. today…
to be continued…
Weegee Daily… September 6, 1944… “New York will be bombed tomorrow!”
PM Daily, September 6, 1944
“Take heed! New York will be bombed tomorrow!” Thus called Mrs. Elizabeth Lassen, 54, as she sat nude on the roof parapet of her apartment house at 1 W. 30th St. With her legs dangling over the edge…”
Weegee Daily, September 6, 2013
(Speaking about the Naked City… This is the Naked City…)
To be continued…
Weegee Daily… September 4, 1944… It was 5 o’clock in the morning at Duffy Square…
PM Daily, September, 4, 1944
It was 5 o’clock in the morning at Duffy Square, Broadway and 47th St. The Labor Day influx and the shortage of hotel space coincided with warm weather, and many visiting servicemen found it convenient to sleep outdoors, along with a few of the steady park bench customers.
Photo by Weegee, PM
Weegee Daily, September 4, 2013
It was 5 o’clock in the afternoon at Duffy Square, Broadway and 47th St. The post Labor Day influx coincided with the warm, not humid, weather, and many visitors to the Naked City posed with a beautiful woman wearing a pink feathered headdress and many more visitors found it convenient to sit on the red stairs, under a watchful eye…
Photo by Ceegee, WD
Weegee Daily… August 18, 1944… Police End Kids’ Street Shower…
PM Daily, August 18, 1944, p. 17
Police End Kids’ Street Shower – Under Orders
At the corner of Cherry St. and Rutgers Pl. on the Lower East Side, sweltering kids turned on a fire hydrant and had a cooling shower until the cops came around. Under orders, the police turned the water off. In sympathy with the kids however, they scolded no one and left at once to do the same job at another corner. We suspect this hydrant went on again soon after the cops left.
Photo by Weegee, PM
Weegee Daily, August 18, 2013
NYC Ends Kids’ Street
At the corner of Cherry St. and Rutgers Pl. on the Lower East Side there were no kids. If there were any kids a sprinkler cap would have been not illegal…
Photo by Ceegee, WD
Berinson book
Summer 2011
Winter 2013
Google Street view
Google maps
To be continued…
Weegee Daily… June 2, 1944… A Weegee Gets Attention at Museum of Modern Art…
PM Daily, June 2, 1944
A Weegee Gets Attention At Museum of Modern Art
The big picture at lower right is the center of attraction in Weegee’s section of the Art in Progress photo exhibition now on view at the Museum of Modern Art…
Weegee Daily, June 2, 2013
A Weegee Gets No Attention At Museum of Modern Art
Deservedly Dieter Roth did… And Claes and Andy and…
(When was the last time photographs, in a museum, received such physical and comical attention, with or without a “No Photography” sign…)
Maybe, for a few brief moments we can not be as myopic as we usually are; we can lift a our Weegee blinders, our Weegee colored glasses, for a few seconds… What else was going on in the world on June 2, 1944?
Locally, a chlorine “heavy greenish-yellow” gas leak effected hundreds in Brooklyn… And more importantly:
And most importantly, a roller-skating extravaganza!
To be continued…
69 Years Ago Today… Leaving Brooklyn and Moving …To Our New Building in Manhattan
PM Daily, May 28, 1944, p.13
“From now on this modern 12-story building at Hudson and Duane Sts., lower Manhattan, is home to us. For the first time, all PM’s operations – business, editorial and printing – are centralized today in one plant. In the four floors and basement devoted to PM, there are 48,400 square feet of floor space.”
Weegee Daily, June 2, 2013
Google Street View.
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