Pays well in good or bad times… He’s a finger print expert… at the Institute of Applied Science…

Buses on 42d St.

Buses replaced crosstown trolley cars on 42d St. yesterday, after the old-timers had operated since 1898. Above, one of the new buses, right, going West, passes a Broadway car which will also be replaced by buses soon. It’s all part of the City’s overall plan to eliminate street cars wherever possible.

Photo by Leo Lieb

PM Daily, November 18, 1946

It was a photographer’s field day, 1944

Sold for $891.00

August 28, 2011

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…

PM Daily, August, 29, 1940

Driven into the rain at 3:45 a.m., survivors watch tenement fire in W. 22 St. where a woman died and several persons were hurt.

Three days of Lester Young (born 8/27/1909) and Charlie Parker (born 8/29/1920) can be heard on WKCR!

1580 Broadway…

Weegee, Accident on Grand Central Station Roof, 1944 (from Weegee’s World)

(Not even close…) 01/01/2010

Piano, radio, and phonograph…

to be continued…

PM Daily, August 13, 1941

Weegee in his wanderings, found pickets outside Sobel Bros. Pawn shop at 822 Columbus Ave. Hans Becker, 57, is telling a union cook that it’s all right to cross the picket line to redeem his watch. Pawn shop employes in 150 shops want $25-a-week minimum. Hans Becker, 40 years with Sobel Bros., gets $20.

PM Daily, August 13, 1941