PM Daily, December 3, 1941
You’ve Often Wondered What It Would be Like If One of Those Things Fell…
This is what… Rigging used to lift a boiler from a truck pulled the fire escape from the wall..
…yanking a big hunk of masonry out of the side of the house at 61st St. and Second Ave…
…allowing the boiler to crash to the sidewalk. Nobody was hurt.
PM Photos by Weegee
WD Daily, December 3, 2012
WD Photos by Google Street View
61st St. and Second Ave…
PM Daily, December 3, 1940, p. 10
“Fourteen persons were rescued by police and firemen during a fast burning fire in the 5-story Travelers Hotel, 209 Ninth Ave. this morning. Dense smoke and wailing sirens drew thousands of ferry commuters to the scene. Ferdinand Segara, 38, (above) who walks with two canes, Mrs. Mary Pappas and her daughter, Dixie, 5, were carried down extension ladders. He saved only his spare pair of shoes. Fire burned out three lower floors.”
Photos by Weegee, PM Staff
Weegee Daily, December 3, 2012, p. 1
Photos by Ceegee, WD Staff
Street View of 209 Ninth Ave.
PM Daily, December 2, 1940, p. 9
SUNDAY TRAFFIC: Frank Woods, 24, of 601 W. 173d St. drove down the West Side highway and didn’t make the sharp turn at 23d St. The only commentary is the sign above the sprung door. Woods got a cut lip.
PM Photo by Weegee
Weegee Daily, December 2, 2012, p. 1
SUNDAY TRAFFIC… West Side highway at 23d St…
WD Photo by Ceegee
Street View of 23d St and the West Side Highway…
PM Daily, November 25, 1943, p. 12
How to Wreck a Tavern – Cold Sober!
Federal men took care of Walsh’s Bar and Grill, 213 Tenth Ave. after the place was accused of taking bad care of its customers by selling bootleg liquor. First they stacked the wet goods on the bar…
…then they started to dismantle the place. Here they take the beer cooling system apart. According to Government boys, a number of local taverns were refilling standard bottles with the newly made stuff.
Then they took out the palms… …and the cash register… and the bar…
…and the cigaret machine… …and the juke box… …and the cat!
Photos by Weegee, PM
Weegee Daily, December 2, 2012
How to Wreck a Neighborhood – Cold Sober!
213 Tenth Ave.
Photos by Ceegee, WD
Weegee, PM Daily, November 24, 1941, p. 13
Cop Kills Holdup Man: A few minutes after he had held up an Essex Street lunchroom on the Lower East Side and shot a patron, Vincent Mannuzza, 31, was lying dead at the feet of the cop who shot him. Patrolman Laurence Cramer, right, shot and killed Mannuzza, after a two-block chase and is shown handing the gunman’s revolver to Sgt. Eugene Morland. The $20 loot taken from the restaurant lies in Mannuzza’s hat at his side. An ambulance surgeon crouches over the dead man who was shot in he head and back. Mannuzza shot a customer, Adam Zayko, 50, when he refused to go into the back room with two other customers and the mangaer of the lunchroom.
PM Photo by Weegee
Weegee Daily, November 24, 2012, – Approximate location
WD Photo by Ceegee
Footnote, or, after a few minutes of Googling, two similar, yet slightly different accounts:
The Herald Statesman, Yonkers, N.Y., Monday, November 24, 1941, p. 5
The Niagara Falls Gazette, Monday, November 24, 1941, p. 22
Weegee Daily, November 24, 2012 – Approximate location
WD Photo by Ceegee
Weegee, PM Daily, November 24, 1940
2 Die in Wrecked Car
Dr. Albion O. Bernstein, 28, interne, and Miss. Helen Ayers, nurse at Beth Israel Hospital, were drowned early yesterday when his car plunged over the string piece and into the East River at Pier 60, East 21st St. Picture shows emergency squad men lifting Miss Ayers from the car. Photo by Weegee
Ceegee, Weegee Daily, November 24, 2012 – approximate location…
0 Die in Wrecked Car…Picture shows the remnants of what was perhaps, Pier 60, East 21st St. and the East River… Photo by Ceegee
Footnote, or, after a few minutes of Googling:
“The Bernstein Award
This national award, endowed by the late Morris J. Bernstein in memory of his son, a physician who died in an accident while answering a hospital call in 1940, is given to a physician or scientist who has made a significant contribution in medicine, surgery, or disease prevention during the previous calendar year.
The award consists of a check for $2000.00 and a citation. Information on the MSSNY Continuing Medical Education Program can be obtained here…”
(from the Internet… Albion O. Bernstein memorial Volume, 1943)
Ceegee, Weegee Daily, November 24, 2012 – approximate location…
The Man in the Street
PM Daily, October 6, 1943
This is how New York’s garment center received the news from Yankee Stadium yesterday afternoon. PM’s photographer took the pictures through a window as the passing crowd watched the scoreboard in the upper window of the Sachs furniture Co. store. Photos by Weegee, PM
The Woman in the Street
Weegee Daily, October 6, 1943
This is how New York’s garment center received the news this afternoon. WD’s photographer took the pictures of a window as the mannequins watched the passing crowd through the windows of the Beauty 35, Beauty Supply Store. Photos by Cee(“Lavishly Wild-Fancy Punk”)gee, WD
PM Daily, October 6, 1942
Fireman William Murawski and William Miller went to the rescue of this cat when it wedged itself between the walls of the buildings at 51 and 53 Barclay St. Freed, the cat repaid his rescuers. It bit Murawski’s right hand. (Neighbors call the cat Tojo.) PM Photo by Weegee
Weegee Daily, October 6, 2012
No cats; no neighbors. Approximate location of 51 and 53 Barclay St. “Freedom Tower” nearby… WD Photo by Ceegee
Weegee, PM Daily, October 6, 1941
Hoarding for Winter on one of the hottest days of the year, this squirrel is perfectly oblivious to the shoeless sleeper in Battery Park. Weegee, who took this PM photo, said the leaves were falling all over the man, but he slept right on through the chatter of squirrels, the photographer’s flash and the heat.
Ceegee, Weegee Daily, October 6, 2012
Hoarding for winter on one of the unseasonably warmest days of the year, this squirrel is perfectly oblivious to the fenced in, treeless tree in Battery Park. Ceegee, who took the WD photo, said the leaves were falling all over the tree, but it stood right on through the chatter of squirrels, the photographer’s flash and the unseasonable warmth.
Weegee, PM Daily, July 23, 1942
Rationing of gasoline via permanent coupons started yesterday. In the photo, cars lined up in front of stations without gas. Sam Fromen, junkman, and his faithful steed had laugh on autoists at this Seventh Ave. station. Later in the day, after stations got gas, motorists stayed away in droves. Afraid of disappointment, perhaps. PM Photo by Weegee
Ceegee, Weegee Daily, July 23, 2012
Irrational. No rationing on this Seventh Ave. block. The gulf between the past and the present is thicker than bricks… WD Photo by Ceegee
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We let our fingers do the walking to find this location… According to the 1940 Manhattan telephone book (courtesy of NYPL), there were two Bricks Service Stations on 7th Ave. The one at 161 7th Ave. is behind the Gulf gas station in Weegee’s photo. A local resident on a bike helped us identify the “art deco” building in the background…
Close, but no cigar…
The Google Street view of the Weegee photo.
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