PM Daily, August 18, 1941, pp. 16-17
New York Daily News, August 18, 1941
New York Post, August 18, 1941
New York Herald Tribune, August 18, 1941
New York Times, August 18, 1941
Not surprisingly every paper covered this tragedy, even the Post. The Times coverage might have been the second best…
Google maps and street view, West 132nd St.
Tragic comparison…
To be continued…
PM Daily, August 17, 1942, pp.8-9
“…Arrest didn’t dampen the spirits of Lillian and Pauline, 16 and 18, when they posed for this picture. Their companions, left to right, are Steve Samanek, 27, Raffael Martini, 18, and Baspay Cabrera, 23. Cabrera and girls worked outside, police say.”
New York Daily News, August 17, 1942
Stickup Quintet and Burglars: “These five youngsters have admitted that they are the stickup quintet that had police on the jump for a week. They’ve confessed to 20 robberies in the last seven days, which netted $1,500 in loot. Rear: Steve Samanek, Raffael Martini, Gaspay Cabrera,” Lillian Hornyak and Pauline Hornyak.”
One of our favorite PM spreads.
Presumably the same Fifth Ave. Playhouse that was had a surrealist film festival in the beginning of 1942.
New York Evening Post, 1942
“Sins of Bali,” “strictly a cheesecake affair…”
North Tonawanda NY Evening News, November 1942
Perhaps coincidentally;-) In NYC there was a “gay nightclub called ‘The Sins of Bali.'”
According to wikipedia: “My Sister and I” is a song written by Hy Zaret, Joan Whitney and Alex Kramer, recorded by Jimmy Dorsey. It hit number one on the Billboard charts on June 7, 1941. The lyric is in the voice of a child who has–with a sister–left a war zone by boat and begun a new life abroad.”
(It can be heard here.)
According to the Internet: “Pauline H. Hornyak was born on February 12th, 1924. Historic records show that Pauline died July 8th, 1997 in Brooklyn, New York, at the age of 73.”
Unknown Weegee
Berinson book
To be continued…
PM Daily, August 14, 1941
PM Photo by Weegee
New York Post, August 14, 1941
New York Daily News, August 14, 1941
Google street view and map, 313 East 106th St.
Berinson book
To be continued…
PM Daily, August 11, 1941
Bandit Roy Bennett, 27, was slain by detectives when he tried to escape after attempting to hold up the New York Delicatessen, 1288 Sixth Ave. He had arrived from Texas by bus a few hours earlier, apparently planning to try his hand as a big-city desperado.
PM Photo by Weegee
Weegee Daily, August 11, 2013
WD Photo by Ceegee
Published (Weegee’s World and the Berinson book) versions of the big-city desperado…
PM Daily, August 11, 1941
The Bandit shares the page with a tank burning from highly inflammable bottled benzine; the Lindberghs at an America First rally; the widow of the scientist who discovered the ‘magic bullet’ that cures syphilis; and the actor Robert Montgomery in the Navy in London…
Unidentified Photographer, August 1941
Surrounded by salmon: the young man who was working behind the counter at the New York Deli at 12:30 A.M. when Bennett attempted his sole New York stick-up… Apparently Bennett was “spotted as suspicious” (no stop and frisk) as he arrived at a New York bus station and followed by a pair of detectives…
New York Daily News, August 11, 1941
“Bullet Ends Texan’s Crime Career in N.Y.”
“A Texas small town boy with a mail order pistol launched his New York career at 10:30 P.M. Saturday night. At 12:30 A.M. yesterday. he died with his boots on and a detective’s bullet in his heart…”
Unidentified Photographer, New York Daily News, August 11, 1941, p.16
Tragedy In New York.
“Roy Bennett lies sprawled, face down and dead, on Sixth Ave…”
Unidentified Photographers, New York Daily News, August 11, 1941, p.16
Gloomy Sunday
Four Pictures of Trouble and Tragedy On Land and on Sea
Unidentified Photographer, “Detective Examining a Body,” August 10, 1941
A pair of screen shots from a photo agency…
Weegee Daily, August 11, 2013
WD Photo by Google Street View
To be continued…
PM Daily, August 6, 1941
Afterward, business as usual: Replacing burned-out bulbs in the Wrigley sign.
PM Photos by Weegee
Weegee Daily, August 6, 2013
Afterwork, business as usual: making photos, chewing fishgum, and (not) replacing (metaphorical) burned-out-compact-fluorescent bulbs…
WD Photos by Ceegee
PM Daily, August 4, 1941
“Our photographer tried to buy gas last night at Brick’s Service Station, Seventh Ave. and 20th St., but it wasn’t selling any…”
Weegee Daily, August 4, 2013
PM Daily, August 1, 1943
The news about Mussolini comes to Broadway and 42d St.
This is how Joe Doakes received the news last Sunday that the Italians had kicked out Mussolini. Joe didn’t start waving his hat. He looked surprised, thoughtful – wary. Joe, in this case, was the New Yorker who, on his way into one of the first-run movie palaces in Times Square… had just spotted the CBS news flash… Weegee, who snapped away unnoticed by his subjects. “I would say they were hopefully waiting to see Adolf’s name up there, too.”
PHOTOS BY WEEGEE
Weegee Daily, August 1, 2013
The news about the Naked City comes to Broadway and 44th St.
This is how the naked cowgirls and boys… spotted the ABC news flash…
PHOTOS BY CEEGEE
(to be continued…)
PM Daily, July 31, 1941, p.17
Rocco Finds His Pal Stabbed
PM Daily, July 31, 1941, p.16-17
Weegee Daily, July 31, 2013
No Rocco… No, no Rocco…
Weegee Daily, July 31, 2013
No, no, no Rocco…
Something interesting happened almost everywhere in the Naked City… these are a few highlights of the colorful history of 62 Stanton St. from the NY Times:
PM Daily, July 30 1941
Weegee Covers: A Waterfront Shooting
Weegee Daily, July 30, 2013
Ceegee Covers… Nothing
PM Daily, July 29, 1940
End of a Fast Auto Ride
Racing 40 miles an hour down Battery Pl., at the foot of West St., near the Aquarium, this car dived into the Hudson about 3:30 a.m. today. Battery Parker breeze-seekers called police. The derrick brought up the car; out fell a body with papers bearing the name George Evans Lyonds, 122 Hone St., Kingston N.Y.
Photo by Weegee
Weegee Daily, July 29, 2013
End of a Fast Walk
Walking 4 miles an hour down Battery Pl. at the foot of West St., near Castle Clinton at about 6:30 p.m. today… The Merchant Marine memorial brought up a body…
Photo by Ceegee
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