PM Daily, June 1, 1941
An End to Liberty
“This rhesus monkey went AWOL from his unknown owner and tore around Duane Street until ASPCA inspectors cornered him in the girls room of the Star Bookbinding Co. Tom Barnshaw lured him with a banana.” Photo by Weegee

Weegee Daily, June 2, 2013
Liberty Forever…
Approximate site of 66 Duane St… A place of remembrance… A scared site… The African Burial Ground National Monument…
Photos by Ceegee

NYPL Direct Me, 1940 phone book…

African Burial Ground and Google Maps (no street view allowed on that part of Duane St.).

67 Years Ago Today… Outdoor Art :-) :-) :-)

May 30, 2013

1946

PM Daily, May 30, 1946

(To be continued…)

69 Years Ago Today… Leaving Brooklyn and Moving …To Our New Building in Manhattan

May 28, 2013

1944

PM Daily, May 28, 1944, p.13
“From now on this modern 12-story building at Hudson and Duane Sts., lower Manhattan, is home to us. For the first time, all PM’s operations – business, editorial and printing – are centralized today in one plant. In the four floors and basement devoted to PM, there are 48,400 square feet of floor space.”

Weegee Daily, June 2, 2013

Google Street View.

70 Years Ago Today… “The Vanishing Scene of Old New York: These Must Give Way When ‘Walled City’ Moves In”

May 28, 2013

1943

PM Daily, May 28, 1943
“The Vanishing Scene of Old New York: These Must Give Way When ‘Walled City’ Moves In”
The old Gas House District torn down for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Companies'”walled city.”