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PM Daily, February 16, 1943, p. 7
Zero Weather, Ice and Smoke Add to Danger in Brooklyn Fire
Freezing weather hampered firemen at a two-alarm fire yesterday at 697 Union St., Brooklyn… No one was injured.

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Weegee Daily, February 16, 2013
Zero Weather, Ice, and Wind Add Danger in Brooklyn Walk
Freezing weather and quirky numbers (and subway construction) hampered fotographer during a rephotographing project at 697 Union St., Brooklyn… No one was injured. (Although wee ran into a pair of colleagues, perhaps on their own Weegee walk…)

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PM Daily, February 15, 1943, p. 7
Air Raid Wardens Rib Themselves in Free Show
Hilarious East Siders packed the Straus auditorium of the Educational Alliance, 197 E. Broadway…
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Photographer Freezes in the Breezes for Free Show
Hilarious East Sider froze while photographing the veiled while under construction Educational Alliance, 197 E. Broadway…
Photos by Ceegee

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PM Daily, February 10, 1943
Shoe Sales Spurt On First Day of Rationing…
Store at 92 Third Ave. sells factory rejects and second-hand shoes, not affected by rationing. Most are bought by workingmen. Business doubled recently. (No, the customer isn’t La Guardia or Costello.)

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Weegee Daily, February 10, 1943
Sales of Burgers Slow on Snowy Saturday…
Store at 92 Third Ave. sells burgers and stuff, perhaps affected by veganism… Most are bought by students and carnivores… (No, the customer isn’t La Guardia or Costello.)

(New York “tabloid,” “noir” photographer, known for his “stark”, “high contrast” images of “crime”, “death”, “night,” etc., etc.,… turns his “gritty” lens on the New York City WWII homefront, with this lightly amusing, slightly offbeat, and great photo…;-)

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PM Daily, February 9, 1941
Murder in the Rain… Hell’s Kitchen Style
This is the picture story of the careful man who remembered to put on his rubbers but failed to watch out for death. Weegee took the photo and wrote the title… Weegee said: “He was going into his home on W. 48th Street when an unknown man fired three shots and ran toward 10th Avenue. Nobody saw or heard any shots… so they said.”

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Weegee Daily, February 9, 2013
No Murder… No Rain… No Snow… Hell’s Kitchen Style
Weegee as photographer and reporter (and poet!)… We recently saw a horizontal version of this image (the printed version is perhaps a third of the un-cropped image) and the legs in the upper left corner are more obvious… Perhaps the square in the foreground, in the sidewalk, is the same in both of the above photos… Perhaps coincidentally, Weegee’s future home was behind and a few doors west of this location…

This is the picture story of a careful man who remembered to make this photo before the blizzard arrived. Ceegee took the photo and wrote the title. Of the photo, of a 72 year old crime scene, in what critics call a continuation of a boring and profoundly unoriginal blog, Ceegee said: “I was gradually going home, walking past W. 48th St., before going to B&H Photo, and perhaps an old bakery, when I fired about ten shots and walked toward 10th Avenue. A few people, walking home, walking dogs and/or children, saw and heard the shots… so they didn’t say.”

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(A few easily google-able news clippings…)

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PM Daily, February 7, 1941, p. 13
This is a New York sidewalk audience. Study their faces. Turn the page to see what they are looking at.
Photo by Weegee, PM Staff

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PM Daily, February 7, 1941, p. 14
This is What They Saw
The body of Salvatore Sutera, 27, lies in front of 202 Mott St. where it was found at 4:45 PM Thursday. He had been shot in the mouth and was dead when police arived. Bloody footprints in the hallway indicated he had been shot there and staggered to the sidewalk… Weegee, our photographer, took this picture and then turned his camera on the watching crowd and got the picture printed on the preceding page.”
PM Daily, February 7, 1941, p. 14

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Weegee Daily, February 7, 2013
This is a New York sidewalk painting. Study their faces. Look into their eyes. Scroll down to see what they are looking at.
Photo by Ceegee, Weegee Daily Staff

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Weegee Daily, February 7, 2013
The doorway of 202 Mott St. as it was found at 6:45 PM Wednesday. The door had been shot in the handle. Muddy footprints indicated that it had been snowing yesterday. It was a door, had no police record, and had not been forcibly opened. Ceegee, our photographer, took the above pictures and then walked down the block, turned left on Delancey St. and then turned his camera on the watching crowd painting pictured above…

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PM Daily, February 6, 1941, p.1
Rescued From River: This woman is shocked with cold. The husky cops carrying her have just hauled her from the East River and she’s on her way to the hospital…
PM Photo by Weegee

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11:15 p.m., Rescue: Police used rope and hook to rescue woman who fell from barge at pier 9, East River.
PM Photo by Weegee

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PM Daily, February 6, 1941,
4:10 p.m., Monoxide Poisoning knocked out two workmen making cheap jewelry at 315 W. 36th St. This one is being given oxygen. Both recovered, were taken to St. Vincent’s Hospital. A Chinese attempted suicide unsuccessfully and a Rumanian succeeded.
PM Photo by Weegee

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Weegee Daily, February 6, 2013
Snow Falls Into River
Approximate location of Pier 9, above a heliport, and below the Pier 11 ferry to Ikea…
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Weegee Daily, February 6, 2013
6:12 p.m. Carbon Monoxide… Too many cars…
Almost knocked out a photographer, making cheap photos, (more cheap shots), at 315 West 36th St…

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PM Daily, Febuary 3, 1942, p. 11, Vol. II, No. 164
Off Duty Cop Does Duty, Kills Gunman Who Tries Stickup
The boys were playing a little pool and cards in the Spring Arrow Social and Athletic Club, 344 Broome St., near the Bowery last night. Patrolman Eligio Sarro, off duty, went in for a pack of cigarets. Four men entered. “This is a stick-up,” the leader muttered. Sarro was a little slow getting his hands out of his overcoat pockets. “Get ’em up,” ordered the leader, Sarro did. One hand held a gun. When he got through firing, the leader was dead.

The usual curious crowd gathered after the gunman, fatally wounded, staggered from the entrance. He was about 22, dark and chunky. Police said he was Andrew Izzo with a record of six arrests.

Patrolman Sarro smokes a cigaret a few minutes after he dropped the gunman. He’s assigned to the Empire Blvd. precinct in Brooklyn. He lives only a few doors from the club.
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Weegee Daily, February 3-4, 2013
Off Duty Photographer Does Duty, Shoots Photo…
The boys and girls were looking at lights and bulbs in the Grand Lighting and Parts, 344 Broome St., near the Bowery tonight…

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344 Broome St., February 4, 2013

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NY Times, February 3, 1942

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PM Daily, February 1, 1944
Ritz, a puppy belonging to William Kinsman, was one of the casualties of the two-alarm blaze at 157 W. 74th St. yesterday. Noticing the dog had a broken leg, a fireman wrapped him in a blanket and took him to the street.
PM Photo by Weegee

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Weegee Daily, February 1, 2013
157 West 74th Street yesterday… No puppies noticed…
WD Photo by Ceegee

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