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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 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…

January 26, 2014

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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

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

January 25, 2014

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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…
Weegee Daily Photos by Ceegee

Weegee Daily Map!

Weegee Daily… December 20, 1940… Wrapping Paper…

December 20, 2013

1940, Weegee Daily

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

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

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.”

Weegee Daily… October 9, 1941… Their First Murder…

October 9, 2013

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DARTED and LIQUIDATED

PM, October 9, 1941, p. 15

Brooklyn School Children See Gambler Murdered in Street

“Pupils were just leaving P.S. 143, in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, at 3:15 yesterday when Peter Mancuso, 22, described by police as a small-time gambler, pulled up in a 1931 Ford at a traffic light a block from the school. Up to the car stepped a gunman, who fired twice and escaped through the throng of children. Mancuso, shot through the head and the heart, struggled to the running board and collapsed dead on the pavement. Above are some of the spectators…”

Weegee Daily, October 9, 2013
Brooklyn Dog Walkers See Photographer Standing in Street. Approximate location of Their First Murder…

Intersection of Roebling St. and N. Sixth St., Brooklyn. Approximate location where Peter Mancuso was shot in a 1931 Ford… Sidewalk where the slayer fled toward N. Seventh St… The entrance of the former P.S. 143…

New York Daily News, October 9, 1941

“A small-time Brooklyn gambler, Peter Mancuso, 23, was slain at 3:20 P.M. yesterday when he stopped his car at the crowded intersection of Roebling St. and N. Sixth St., Brooklyn.

A lone assailant darted up to the car and liquidated Mancuso with two bullets fired at close range through the open front window…

One bullet hit Mancuso in the head, another in the heart. With a dying effort he got the door of the car open and toppled into the street…

Meanwhile, P.S. 143, a block away, on Havermeyer St., was just letting out. The slayer dashed down N. Seventh St. heading for the school and zig-zagged among the crowds of children… the fugitive darted into Havermeyer St. and disappeared.”

To be continued…

Weegee Daily… September 15, 1944… Here’s what the wind did to the glamorous models…

September 15, 2013

1944, Weegee Daily

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.

Noir-ish lighting at Grand and Allen Sts.

Glamorous sweets on signs, and a B, in the window of Natalie Bakery Inc, 271 Grand St.
Weegee Daily, September 15, 2013

Weegee Daily… September 12, 1941… “quiet understanding, no excitement.”

September 12, 2013

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PM Daily, September 12, 1941
Orthodox Jews heard the President in East Side spots…
PM Photo by Weegee

Weegee Daily, September 12, 2013
Yesterday the President could have been heard in East Side spots, like this restaurant at East Broadway and Jefferson Street… “quiet understanding, no excitement.”
We kinda phoned this one in…
WD Photo by Ceegee

Weegee Daily… September 11, 1941… This unidentified girl…

September 11, 2013

1941, Weegee Daily

PM Daily, September 11, 1941
This unidentified girl had just left the Sheridan Theater near the exploded water main but the flood was so deep that she couldn’t get across the street…

Weegee Daily, September 11, 2013
Sheridan Theater is long gone; St. Vincent’s hospital is rapidly diminishing…

To be continued…

Weegee Daily… September 9, 1943… Little Italy Celebrates…

September 9, 2013

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PM Daily, September 9, 1943
Little Italy Celebrates and Gives Thanks
Over Mulberry St., on the Lower East Side, flags of America and Italy flutter side by side for the first time in 21 months after radios blared the news at noon yesterday that the two countries no longer were at war

Weegee Daily, September 9, 2013
Nolita Shops and Gives Bird Seed
Over Mulberry St., in Nolita, a flag of the US Marine Corps flutters above a pigeon also fluttering and feeding…

Weegee Daily… September 7, 1944… And the Living Suffer…

September 7, 2013

1944, Weegee Daily

PM Daily, September 7, 1944
Death Strikes a Truck Driver at Dawn… And the Living Suffer.
Rudolph Supik, 38, of 417 E. 10th St. was killed at 6:10 a.m. yesterday when the bakery truck he was diving colided with a sedan at 1st Ave.. and 7th St…