PM Daily, September 11, 1941
This unidentified girl had just left the Sheridan Theater near the exploded water main but the flood was so deep that she couldn’t get across the street…
Weegee Daily, September 11, 2013
Sheridan Theater is long gone; St. Vincent’s hospital is rapidly diminishing…
To be continued…
PM Daily, September 9, 1943
Little Italy Celebrates and Gives Thanks
Over Mulberry St., on the Lower East Side, flags of America and Italy flutter side by side for the first time in 21 months after radios blared the news at noon yesterday that the two countries no longer were at war
Weegee Daily, September 9, 2013
Nolita Shops and Gives Bird Seed
Over Mulberry St., in Nolita, a flag of the US Marine Corps flutters above a pigeon also fluttering and feeding…
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…
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…
PM Daily, September 6, 1940
Earl McBride, 39, from Dormont, Pa., in town to see a prize fight, pitched desks, lamps, tables and other furniture from his circled window on the eighth floor of the Beacon Hotel, Broadway and 75th St…
Weegee Daily, September 6, 2013
To be continued…
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
PM Daily, August 28, 1941
Tragedy in Brooklyn: Mother Kills Three Children and Herself…
Neighbors See Removal Of Mass Murder Victims. At 6:20 yesterday morning, William Morey of 311 20th Street, Brooklyn, yelled for help… Her farewell note read: “We all have syphilis disease. This is the best way out.” Police say she was deluded. The police department fired Morey in 1938 for drinking – he hasn’t kept a job since then.
PM Photo by Weegee
Weegee Daily, August 28, 2013
At around 6:20 yesterday evening…
WD Photos by Ceegee
New York Daily News, August 28, 1941
Mother Goes Berserk
Kills 3 Children – Wounds 4th Child and Husband
Morey was under suspicion until police found Mrs. Morey’s note reading: “This is the best way out. Don’t touch anything. We’re all diseased.”
Google street view
PM Daily, August 27, 1941
Weegee Has a Salon:
Weegee Daily, August 27, 2013
Weegee Has a Saloon… (In Chicago.)
To be continued…
PM Daily, August 26, 1940
From Federal Penitentiary to This…
Two guns and the prostrate form of Louis Riggione tell the story. Released from prison two months ago, Riggione was enjoying his freedom by an early morning walk with his brother, Joseph, when underworld bullets mowed him down.
PM Photo by Weegee
PM Daily, August 26, 1940 (image from the Internet)
Weegee Daily, August 26, 2013
From Work to This…
I’m going to go out on a limb and conclude that the Daily News has the correct spelling, Reggione.
The Daily News photo has the credit: “By Acme.”
Across from the Puck building… According to a popular (un)real estate website, a five room apartment at 280 Mulberry St., recently rented for $3,250/month, and the average rent for a two bedroom is about $3,000… I’m going to go out on another limb, 282 Mulberry St., according to the Daily News, was on the Lower East Side, and is now in Nolita…
WD Photo by Ceegee
New York Daily News, August 27, 1940
One Reggione Saved By Rain, Brother Slain
The only reason Joe Reggione is alive today, detectives investigating the murder of his brother, Louis, said yesterday, is that it is hard to hit a running man with a revolver on a dark, rain-swept street… as the brothers reached the doorway of a tenement house at 282 Mulberry St., where they shared a five-room flat…
Vendetta, Says Sister
“It’s a vendetta,” she told them. “Somebody has sworn to kill us all. Oh God, who’s going to be next?”
DEAD END
Louie Was a Tough Guy – But He Wasn’t Touch Enough
The Guns, The Gunman, The Gutter
Shot down by rival tough guys, Louie Reggione, gun toter, counterfeiter, ex-convict, lies dead in the gutter in front of his home… guns used by the killers are circled…”
Google street view
(Nolita!)
To be continued…
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
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Google Street view
Google maps
To be continued…
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