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PM, April 2, 1944
“How to Draw Political Cartoons by Ad Reinhardt
Memo to editors: This solution to the problem of preparing the daily (any day) political cartoon is offered to relieve any paper, any metal or manpower shortages. This solution can be mastered by anyone in the four easy stages shown below. Send in for more complete instructions any time.”

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PM Daily, September 15, 1944
80-Mile Winds Lash the City as Hurricane Wreaks Damage Along Atlantic Coast
The big storm broke windows all over town. A night watchman and a policeman clean things up at Cohen’s Silk Store at Grand and Allen Sts.
Here’s what the wind did to the glamorous models in the window of the Edith and Billie Bridal Salon, 271 Grand St.

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Noir-ish lighting at Grand and Allen Sts.
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Glamorous sweets on signs, and a B, in the window of Natalie Bakery Inc, 271 Grand St.
Weegee Daily, September 15, 2013

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PM Daily, September, 4, 1944
It was 5 o’clock in the morning at Duffy Square, Broadway and 47th St. The Labor Day influx and the shortage of hotel space coincided with warm weather, and many visiting servicemen found it convenient to sleep outdoors, along with a few of the steady park bench customers.
Photo by Weegee, PM

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Weegee Daily, September 4, 2013
It was 5 o’clock in the afternoon at Duffy Square, Broadway and 47th St. The post Labor Day influx coincided with the warm, not humid, weather, and many visitors to the Naked City posed with a beautiful woman wearing a pink feathered headdress and many more visitors found it convenient to sit on the red stairs, under a watchful eye…
Photo by Ceegee, WD

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PM Daily, August 18, 1944, p. 17
Police End Kids’ Street Shower – Under Orders
At the corner of Cherry St. and Rutgers Pl. on the Lower East Side, sweltering kids turned on a fire hydrant and had a cooling shower until the cops came around. Under orders, the police turned the water off. In sympathy with the kids however, they scolded no one and left at once to do the same job at another corner. We suspect this hydrant went on again soon after the cops left.
Photo by Weegee, PM

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Weegee Daily, August 18, 2013
NYC Ends Kids’ Street
At the corner of Cherry St. and Rutgers Pl. on the Lower East Side there were no kids. If there were any kids a sprinkler cap would have been not illegal…
Photo by Ceegee, WD
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Berinson book

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Summer 2011
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Winter 2013
Google Street view

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Google maps

To be continued…

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PM Daily, June 2, 1944
A Weegee Gets Attention At Museum of Modern Art
The big picture at lower right is the center of attraction in Weegee’s section of the Art in Progress photo exhibition now on view at the Museum of Modern Art…

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Weegee Daily, June 2, 2013
A Weegee Gets No Attention At Museum of Modern Art
Deservedly Dieter Roth did… And Claes and Andy and…
(When was the last time photographs, in a museum, received such physical and comical attention, with or without a “No Photography” sign…)
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Maybe, for a few brief moments we can not be as myopic as we usually are; we can lift a our Weegee blinders, our Weegee colored glasses, for a few seconds… What else was going on in the world on June 2, 1944?
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Locally, a chlorine “heavy greenish-yellow” gas leak effected hundreds in Brooklyn… And more importantly:
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And most importantly, a roller-skating extravaganza!
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To be continued…

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PM Daily, March 26, 1943
Inside Manhattan
By Weegee
Goodowitch and Friend
Morris Goodowitch, the one with the glasses, is owner of a shoppe named Arnold’s down on Union Square which burglars find irresistible…

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Weegee Daily, March 26, 2013
Outside Manhattan
By Ceegee
Good Ol’Witch and Friend

Photo by Google Street View
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Weegee Daily Map!

(To be continued…)