PM, March 9, 1941
“If You Want to Know How Weegee Gets Pictures Like These See Ralph Steiner’s Story on Next Page”
[Obviously the greatest and most important story, photographs, and text in PM’s history… Ink on paper has never been better used throughout the history of the printed word…]
Tag Archives: 1941
“… masquerades as progressive. You can’t fool all of the people…” On the media, 73 years ago today…
PM, February 13, 1941
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. About the photo of a 73 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 the shots… if so, they didn’t say.”
(A few easily google-able news clippings…)
Weegee Daily… January 27, 1941… Not London’s Famous No. 10 Downing St…
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 27, 1941… Blaze Makes 200 Homeless, Kills One and Injures Seven…
PM Daily, Vol. 3, January 27, 1941, No. 194, p. 8
Blaze Makes 200 Homeless, Kills One and Injures Seven
A four-alarm fire swept the upper floors of the six-story apartment house at 552 Riverside Dr., near Claremont Inn, during snow storm early yesterday morning. By the time the fierce blaze was brought under control, 200 people were homeless, one tenant had been suffocated, another was cut by glass, and six firemen were hurt.
Many of those forced to the street in scanty attire were students at the nearby Juilliard School of Music. Tenants in nearby buildings sheltered many of the homeless. A tailor around the corner on Tiemann Pl. converted his shop into a refuge, and 60 of the younger tenants were taken to Knickerbocker Hospital [Founded in 1862; 70 Convent Av., Manhattan, now apartments – according to wikipedia] for the night. The Red Cross precinct disaster service swung into action, supplying clothes and funds for those who needed them.
When the flames got to work on the metal cornice it burned with this blowtorch effect, the glow being visible across the Hudson.
Tenants got off the upper fire escapes just before they were enveloped by flames. Cause of he fire was not determined.
This girl musician is laughing hysterically. She saved her precious violin, but dashed to the street in nightgown and without shoes.
PM Photos by Weegee
Weegee Daily, January 27, 2013
No Fire Yesterday or Today… The building is pet friendly…
(Noir-ish lighting ;-)
Perhaps coincidentally, currently there is a sixth floor apartment available, for sale, for $369,000. From a real estate website: the building was built in 1910; the building has 68 units, 6 floors, a live-in super, common court yard, bike storage, storage, fitness center and central laundry room. The building is pet friendly. 60 years ago today, it’s very likely that this apartment was damaged in the above fire…
Weegee Daily Photos by Ceegee
Weegee Daily Map!
(To be continued…)
Weegee Daily… January 27, 1941… New York Chinese Welcome New Year to Pell Street in a Snowstorm…
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.)
Weegee Daily… January 26, 1941… Winter From Empire State Building…
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 lingers on pavements and curbs yesterday, but it lay 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…
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
73 Years Ago Today… Subway… Art…
PM, January 20, 1941
73 Years Ago Today…
PM, January 20, 1941
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