The Death Chair… 1941
Weegee Daily… February 15, 1943… Air Raid Wardens Rib Themselves in Free Show

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…
Photos by Weegee

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
72 Years Ago Today… A Kind of (Funhouse) Mirror… On the Media… 1941…
February 12, 1943…
February 11, 1943…
23 Foxhounds…
Weegee Daily… February 10, 1943… Shoe Sales Spurt On First Day of Rationing…

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.)

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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Weegee Daily… February 9, 1941… Murder in the Rain… Hell’s Kitchen Style…

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.”

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.”
Weegee Daily… February 7, 1941… This is a New York sidewalk audience…

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

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

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



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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