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Weegee Daily… December 20, 1940… Wrapping Paper…

December 20, 2013
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PM Daily, December 20, 1940, p.18-19
“Wrapping Paper covers Lewis Sandano’s body at Elizabeth and Bleecker Sts. He stole a coat, was chased by Detectives Howard Phelen and William Fyffe. Fyffe shot when Sandano reached in his pocket – but Sandano had no gun.
PM Photo by Weegee

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Weegee Daily, December 20, 2013
Paper Wrapping around a lamp post at Elizabeth and Bleecker Sts…
WD Photo by Ceegee

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From the Corbis website:
“Policeman Looking at a Body
Original caption: No Christmas Deliveries for Him. New York, New York: Slumped on the sidewalk under a mailbox is the partially covered body of Lewis Sandano, of Prince Street, who was shot and killed in front of the Madonna di Lorito Roman Catholic Church by Detective Fyffe as he fled with an overcoat which he had filched from a parked automobile. Standing over him is policeman George Luzzi who is recording a grim pre-Christmas drama.”
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Weegee Daily… August 26, 1940… From Federal Penitentiary to This… The Guns, The Gunman, The Gutter…

August 26, 2013
1940, Weegee Daily

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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

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PM Daily, August 26, 1940 (image from the Internet)

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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
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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…”

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(Nolita!)

To be continued…

Weegee Daily… July 29, 1940… End of a Fast Auto Ride

July 29, 2013
1940, Weegee Daily

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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

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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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73 Years Ago Today… Detective Examines Board and Glass…

June 22, 2013
1940


Unidentified Photographers, New York Daily News, June 21, 1940

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New York Daily News, June 22, 1940
Weegee or Unidentified Photographer, Detective examines board and glass shattered in blast at 17 Battery Place, June 22, 1940

From a Midtown Manhattan Museum’s website:
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Weegee, Investigator, (who looks like & is Weegee) at Manhattan Police Hdqs, looks over fragments of broken glass, & metal from scene of bombings, for clues, in 2 bombings at German Consulate Bldg, & Daily Worker, note piece of wood, from German Consulate Bldg bombing, June 1940

Except for the stripes on the tie going in the opposite direction, that’s a pretty close match… Fellig playing and/or posing as investigator/detective…

Weegee Daily… December 26, 1940

December 26, 2012
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PM Daily, December 26, 1940.
First Aid fails to revive Paul Ryan, killed by a gas explosion in his apartment at 865 First Ave. Police said it was apparently suicide. The Christmas night blast shock the 17-story building and injured two house employes. PM photo by Weegee.

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Boring photos fail to revive pedestrian… One of the eight million stories in the 17-story building ends and the building remains surprisingly intact… Weegee Daily photos by Ceegee.

Weegee Daily… December 23, 1940

December 23, 2012
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PM Daily, December 23, 1940, p15. PM photos by Weegee
Home For Christmas Are the Soldiers From Alabama.
 “For nearly seven hours wives, girl friends, mothers and fathers swarmed into Pennsylvania Station to greet 5000 men returning from Fort McClellan, Anniston, Ala., on Christmas furlough. The special sections ran far behind schedule but the festive spirit of the crowd overwhelmed any feeling of boredom at the delay. The off schedules were caused by heavy traffic on southern routes of other trains distributing the new trainees throughout the country for the holidays. Then, too, special stops had to be made to take aboard more drinking water and sandwiches. Here, part of the crowd waits.”

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Weegee Daily, December 23, 2012. WD photos by Ceegee
“…People swarmed Grand Central Station… the Apple store overwhelmed any feeling of boredom. Here, part of the crowd walks and waits and photographs…”

Weegee Daily… December 3, 1940… Fourteen persons were rescued by police and firemen…

December 3, 2012
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PM Daily, December 3, 1940, p. 10

“Fourteen persons were rescued by police and firemen during a fast burning fire in the 5-story Travelers Hotel, 209 Ninth Ave. this morning. Dense smoke and wailing sirens drew thousands of ferry commuters to the scene. Ferdinand Segara, 38, (above) who walks with two canes, Mrs. Mary Pappas and her daughter, Dixie, 5, were carried down extension ladders. He saved only his spare pair of shoes. Fire burned out three lower floors.”
Photos by Weegee, PM Staff

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Weegee Daily, December 3, 2012, p. 1
Photos by Ceegee, WD Staff

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Street View of 209 Ninth Ave.