PM Daily, January 27, 1941, Vol. 1, No. 159, p. 32
New York Chinese Welcome New Year to Pell Street in a Snowstorm
In the Chinese calendar, today is New Year’s… Chinatown welcomed it at midnight with the traditional lion dance to drive away evil spirits. Weegee made this picture of the ceremony from a fire escape above headquarters of the Hip Sing Chinese Association, 15 Pell St…

Weegee Daily, January 27, 2013
New York Chinese Do Not Welcome New Year on Pell Street after a Small Snowstorm
In the Chinese calendar, today is not New Year’s… Ceegee made these pictures from Pell St., in front of the Hip Sing Chinese Association, 15 Pell St. (That building probably has not changed much in 62 years.)

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Weegee Daily… January 27, 1941… Not London’s Famous No. 10 Downing St…

January 27, 2013

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PM Daily, January 27, 1941, Vol. 1, No. 159, p. 14
Not London’s Famous No. 10 Downing St., but Manhattan’s very own. Weegee found it in the labyrinth of criss-cross streets known as lower Greenwich Village. If you are looking for a modern hideaway apartment or store and want to say, “I live at 10 Downing Street,” it’s your dish. Take West Side IRT to Sheridan Sq. or take Independent to Washington Sq., bear south to Sixth Ave. and Bleecker St., then look close. The map may help. There are people who have lived in the Village for years and don’t know where it is.

Weegee Daily, January 26, 2013
Not London’s Famous No. 10 Downing St., but Manhattan’s very own. Ceegee found it in the labyrinth of criss-cross streets known as lower Greenwich Village. If you are looking for a coffee shop, bank, restaurant, modern hideaway apartment or store and want to say, “I live at 10 Downing Street,” it’s your dish. Take the 1, Broadway-7th Avenue local to Christopher St./Sheridan Sq. or take the A, B, C, D, E, or F to West 4th St… (The above photo is surprisingly almost an exact match, it’s hard to see as a little JPEG, but the buildings and painted wall sign have barely changed in 62 years…)

ps.
From to a popular (un)real estate website: 10 Downing St.: “Built in 1941, this beautiful six-story building is just as charming and unique as it was 70 years ago. With upgrades to the lobby, elevators and many apartments, the city’s most discriminating New Yorkers proudly call 10 Downing Street home.”
And with 700 sq. ft studios renting for $4,000, they may be discriminating, but I wouldn’t be very proud of that rent…”Screen shot of a popular (un)real estate web site.

Weegee Daily… January 26, 1941… Winter From Empire State Building…

January 26, 2013

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PM Daily, January 26, 1941, Vol. 1, No. 32, p. 32
Winter From Empire State Building
Snow was almost gone from pavements yesterday, but it lay thick on skyscraper roofs. No traffic there, 5 to 10 degrees colder.
PM Photo by Weegee

Weegee Daily, January 26, 2013
Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall from Google Maps… Or, Winter from above the Empire State Building
Snow was gone from pavements yesterday, but it lay thin on skyscraper roofs. No traffic there… (Too lazy and cheap to go to the top of the Empire State Building… With the magic of Google maps and Photoshop…)

Weegee Daily… January 26, 1941… The Storm Wasn’t Really This Bad…

January 26, 2013

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PM Daily, January 26, 1941, Vol. 1, No. 32, p. 13
The Storm Wasn’t Really This Bad
Weegee was after snow pictures Saturday morning and he found this one on Columbus Circle. The snow didn’t really fall this heavily. This is just the way the snowplow piled it up. To make it look worse Weegee put his camera on the street and shot upward.
Photo by Weegee

Weegee Daily, January 26, 2013
The Storm Wasn’t Really That Bad
Ceegee was after snow pictures Saturday morning and he found this one on Columbus Circle. The snow didn’t really fall heavily… To make it look worse Ceegee put his camera almost on the street and shot upward… (Funny coincidence, it did snow a little last (Friday) night…)
Photo by Ceegee

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Weegee Daily… January 25, 1942… Two Passengers Are Killed As Auto Dives Into Hudson…

January 25, 2013

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PM Daily, January 25, 1942, Vol. 2, No. 32, p. 11
Two Passengers Are Killed As Auto Dives Into Hudson
Police Raise Connecticut Auto that plunged into the Hudson at 29th St. Saturday. Two people (one in car window) were killed…
A Street Cleaner, Charles Sharkey, heard screams, helped rescue driver (third person in car) who had managed to get out…
The Driver, Burton Chapin, was taken to a waterfront shack to get over the shock. He still grasps driver’s license.
PM Photos by Weegee

Weegee Daily, January 25, 2013
No Pedestrians Are Killed…
Looking into the Hudson at 29th St. Thursday. No people were killed…
It was too cold for this, 17 degrees and very, very windy…
The piers are no longer present… below a small heliport; across the street from something like a sanitation parking/working area… My right hand is frozen… He still grasps a camera…
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Weegee Daily… January 24, 1941… Theater District Smoked Up At Curtain Time Last Night…

January 24, 2013

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Theater District Smoked Up At Curtain Time Last Night
PM Daily, January 24, 1941, Vol. 1, No. 158, p. 15
The fire started among baled bolts of cotton fabric in the basement of 70 W. 38th St. The alarm was sent in at 8 o’clock and a second at 8:21. By 8:45, though the smoke made it a mean one to get at, the blaze had been doused without damage to millinery shops on the upper floors. The parked car at center got a soaking. One fireman was seriously burned in the foot.
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Weegee Daily, January 24, 2013
No Longer The Theater District, Not Smoked Up A Curatin Time Last Night…

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(to be continued…)

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Weegee Daily… January 21, 1941… New York Shelters protect 7000 of the city’s homeless residents every cold wintry night.

January 21, 2013

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PM Daily, January 21, 1941, Vol. 1, No. 155, p.1
New York Shelters…
protect 7000 of the city’s homeless residents every cold wintry night. There are two city shelters, one for men, one for women, and others like this one, the Bowery Mission, where these men are allowed to sit up all night… after they’ve sung hymns for an hour or so.

PM Daily, January 21, 1941, Vol. 1, No. 155, p. 12
Here’s How a PM Reporter Spent a Night on the Bowery…
You don’t have to sing for your sleep, but men who spend the night at the Municipal Lodging House at 432 E. 25th St. are turned out at 5 a.m. regardless of the weather. It’s a long, hard walk from the Bowery to the lodgings, yet it’s mostly the old men who go there.

“…Then I retraced my steps with a photographer and took these pictures, finishing at 5 a.m. at the Municipal Lodging House, where I watched and he photographed the homeless old men being turned out into the bitter cold.
That’s right. They turn these men out at 5 a.m. into the cold, bitter morning.”

PM Daily, January 21, 1941, Vol. 1, No. 155, p. 13
…And Here’s How Hundreds of Homeless Men Spend Every Night.
At No. 8 Bowery [believe there was a correction issued the next day] is the dark, dingy Bowery (All Night) Mission. Those who come early have to sing hymns for their sleep. Late comers stand out in the cold until services are over. Services last about two hours, till midnight. Sleepers at the Mission have to lean over the bench in front. They walk in and out all night. They cough. They snore. Drunks babble, dogs[!] bark. Sleep ends at 5 a.m.

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The amazing article by Gene De Poris begins: “I was a bum on New York’s Bowery. I told my mother I didn’t want any dinner, not even a cup of coffee…”

Weegee Daily, January 21, 2013
Approximate location of the Municipal Lodging House, 432 East 25th St., Manhattan. Today it’s the rear of the VA hospital, and after three months, it’s still closed after Super Storm Sandy…

Weegee Daily, January 21, 2013
…And Here’s How Hundreds of People Spend Saturday Afternoons…
Stuck in traffic while driving on the Bowery; shopping on the Bowery, shopping in the Lower East Side, and shopping in Nolita…
The Bowery Mission, at 227 Bowery (229 Bowery, was, among other things, the studio of the great Charles Eisenmann, etc.), the best looking building on the block, is still offering shelter, and song, etc…
Two homeless in NYC snapshots:
In the winter of 1941: 7,000 homeless people.
In the fall of 2012:
Total number of homeless people in municipal shelters: 48,694
Number of homeless families: 11,678
Number of homeless children: 20,383
Number of homeless adults in families: 17,843
Number of homeless single adults: 10,476
Number of homeless single men: 7,728
Number of homeless single women: 2,740
(2012 info from the Coalition for the Homeless website.)

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Weegee Daily, January 20, 1941… 44 Firemen for Midget Fire…

January 20, 2013

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PM Daily, January 20, 1941, p. 32
44 Firemen for Midget Fire: Nine engines, 44 firemen, three radio cars, six cops helped put out blaing bantam car. Weegee, who took the picture, suggested driver pull car to nearest fire station.

January 20, 2013
No Firemen for Midget Car: No fire, instead a very small automobile and at the end of the antenna, a plaque stating that Herman Melville lived behind the very small automobile (no white whale, no Moby Dick of a vehicle), where he wrote Billy Budd, (and a lot of poetry, where his son killed him self – shot himself in the head, I believe; where Herman commuted across town, to the Hudson River, to a boring job). In front of the back of the Armory (site of the (in)famous 1913 Armory show)… Ceegee, who took the picture, monomaniacally pursuing his own white whale of photography, didn’t suggest that the driver pull car to nearest modernist, post-cubist, circular circus staircase, and ride the El… And the Pequod?

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Weegee Daily… January 20, 1941… Weegee Revisits Coney Island…

January 20, 2013

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PM Daily, January 20, 1941, Vol. 1, No. 154, p. 19
Weegee Revisits Coney Island… It’s Not Dead—Only Sleeping
By Weegee
“Having covered Coney Island last summer (July 21, 1940), and the picture getting a big play in PM then, I decided to take a ride out there Sunday and see what the Island looks like in winter time…”

Weegee Daily, January 20, 2013

Ceegee Revisits Coney Island… It’s Not Dead—Only Sleeping and Recovering From Super Storm Sandy

July 21, 2012 Jan. 20, 2013

By Ceegee
Having covered Coney Island last summer (July 21, 2012), and the picture getting a big play in Weegee Daily then, I decided to take a subway out there Sunday and see what the Island looks like in winter time.
On the way out to the Island there were no female straphangers to keep me company. What a difference from the summer time! Then I can choose between blondes and brunettes. (Where do all the straphangers go in winter time?)
Riding by the Gownus Canal on the F train, there were only a few girls on the bicycle path. They were all bundled up. I wasn’t going to waste memory and megabytes… No “cheesecake” (legs showing), no pictures.
I got to Coney by noon. The beach was deserted and so was I… On the boardwalk a lone man was getting a sun bath besides a closed hot dog stand.
I then took a walk through the rides and games of chance. Every thing was shut tighter than the Romney Hdqs.
As I passed by the Coney Island Sideshows by the Seashore, Coney Island U.S.A. Museum, I wanted to photograph some of the wonders. But the place was closed.
All the skee ball and ice cream places were closed. The aquarium is still closed. But the human polar bears went for a swim… A statue stares, a cat, and Coney, sleeps…

Weegee Daily, January 20, 2013

10 Shoots 10 cents – This is the only sun bather Ceegee found today at Coney Island. He sits in front of a padlocked shooting gallery near boardwalk.

Perhaps one of the longest texts by Weegee in PM Daily. Presumably heavily edited… Most bizarre sentence (not surprisingly about, in part, other newspapers): “I then stopped off at Feltman’s carrousel (wooden horse merry-go-round to youse mugs who read the News and Mirror.)”

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(To be continued… edited, etc…)

Weegee Daily… January 18, 1943… Our Little Businessmen Bounced Around by War…

January 18, 2013

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PM Daily, January 18, 1943, p.7
Our Little Businessmen Bounced Around by War
Signs of the times are reproduced below…
Chinese curio store doubles up with rival.
There’s a barber shortage on the Bowery.
This establishment has already closed.
Vacant store becomes baby carriage depot.
James Butler grocery store, that’s all.
Hamburger joint will re-open, they hope.
Musical instrument store shuts up shop.
Leon is gone, but his salve is still on sale.
Tailor going out of business.
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