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PM Daily February 19, 1941, pp. 16-17
The Boys Who Used to Run Firemen’s Errands Are Grown Men Now… …Chasing Fires With Buff Badges Pinned on Their Coats
“…I found the buffs to be a nice bunch of sociable fellows. If I wasn’t paid by PM for going to fires I’d join the Fire Bell Club and do it for a hobby. But only in summer time, not on Winter nights when press camera shutters freeze. Camera men freeze on cold nights, too, while we’re on the subject.”
PM Photos by Weegee

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Weegee Daily, February 19, 2013
The Boys Who Used to Run Are Grown Men Now… Chasing Balls in the Buff
Fascinating and lengthy (and heavily edited) text by Weegee… The Fire Bell Club (119 West 33d St. in 1941), are still active, their website is here… “Typical fire buff,” Gordon R. Mullins is in a few of these photos… More info about “Moon” Mullins is here…
Weegee Daily Photos by Ceegee

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PM Daily, February 17, 1941, p. 14
Police Report: Weegee Covers an Arrest and a Fire
Man Caught in Store:

Fire on Fifth Avenue:

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Store:

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Fifth Avenue:

Weegee Daily, February 17, 2013

(To be continued…)

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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.”

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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.”

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(A few easily google-able news clippings…)

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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

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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

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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

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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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PM Daily, February 6, 1941, p.1
Rescued From River: This woman is shocked with cold. The husky cops carrying her have just hauled her from the East River and she’s on her way to the hospital…
PM Photo by Weegee

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11:15 p.m., Rescue: Police used rope and hook to rescue woman who fell from barge at pier 9, East River.
PM Photo by Weegee

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PM Daily, February 6, 1941,
4:10 p.m., Monoxide Poisoning knocked out two workmen making cheap jewelry at 315 W. 36th St. This one is being given oxygen. Both recovered, were taken to St. Vincent’s Hospital. A Chinese attempted suicide unsuccessfully and a Rumanian succeeded.
PM Photo by Weegee

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Weegee Daily, February 6, 2013
Snow Falls Into River
Approximate location of Pier 9, above a heliport, and below the Pier 11 ferry to Ikea…
Weegee Daily Photos by Ceegee

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Weegee Daily, February 6, 2013
6:12 p.m. Carbon Monoxide… Too many cars…
Almost knocked out a photographer, making cheap photos, (more cheap shots), at 315 West 36th St…

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PM Daily, January 27, 1942
Desire for Death:
This woman being led away by police tried to jump from 18th-floor ledge of Telephone Building, Broad and Beaver Sts. A cop’s flying tackle saved her. She is Mary Kovatch, 37, a charwoman.
PM Photo by Weegee

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Weegee Daily, January 27, 2013
Desire for Death…
WD Photos by Google Street View

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(to be continued…)

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The Times Record, Troy, N.Y., January 29, 1942

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Sarasota Herald-Tribune, January 26, 1942, p5