PM Daily, September 6, 1944
“Take heed! New York will be bombed tomorrow!” Thus called Mrs. Elizabeth Lassen, 54, as she sat nude on the roof parapet of her apartment house at 1 W. 30th St. With her legs dangling over the edge…”
Weegee Daily, September 6, 2013
(Speaking about the Naked City… This is the Naked City…)
To be continued…
PM Daily, September 6, 1940
Earl McBride, 39, from Dormont, Pa., in town to see a prize fight, pitched desks, lamps, tables and other furniture from his circled window on the eighth floor of the Beacon Hotel, Broadway and 75th St…
Weegee Daily, September 6, 2013
To be continued…
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
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
PM Daily, August 28, 1941
Tragedy in Brooklyn: Mother Kills Three Children and Herself…
Neighbors See Removal Of Mass Murder Victims. At 6:20 yesterday morning, William Morey of 311 20th Street, Brooklyn, yelled for help… Her farewell note read: “We all have syphilis disease. This is the best way out.” Police say she was deluded. The police department fired Morey in 1938 for drinking – he hasn’t kept a job since then.
PM Photo by Weegee
Weegee Daily, August 28, 2013
At around 6:20 yesterday evening…
WD Photos by Ceegee
New York Daily News, August 28, 1941
Mother Goes Berserk
Kills 3 Children – Wounds 4th Child and Husband
Morey was under suspicion until police found Mrs. Morey’s note reading: “This is the best way out. Don’t touch anything. We’re all diseased.”
Google street view
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
PM Daily, August 26, 1940 (image from the Internet)
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
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…”
Google street view
(Nolita!)
To be continued…
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
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
Berinson book
Summer 2011
Winter 2013
Google Street view
Google maps
To be continued…
PM Daily, August 17, 1942, pp.8-9
“…Arrest didn’t dampen the spirits of Lillian and Pauline, 16 and 18, when they posed for this picture. Their companions, left to right, are Steve Samanek, 27, Raffael Martini, 18, and Baspay Cabrera, 23. Cabrera and girls worked outside, police say.”
New York Daily News, August 17, 1942
Stickup Quintet and Burglars: “These five youngsters have admitted that they are the stickup quintet that had police on the jump for a week. They’ve confessed to 20 robberies in the last seven days, which netted $1,500 in loot. Rear: Steve Samanek, Raffael Martini, Gaspay Cabrera,” Lillian Hornyak and Pauline Hornyak.”
One of our favorite PM spreads.
Presumably the same Fifth Ave. Playhouse that was had a surrealist film festival in the beginning of 1942.
New York Evening Post, 1942
“Sins of Bali,” “strictly a cheesecake affair…”
North Tonawanda NY Evening News, November 1942
Perhaps coincidentally;-) In NYC there was a “gay nightclub called ‘The Sins of Bali.'”
According to wikipedia: “My Sister and I” is a song written by Hy Zaret, Joan Whitney and Alex Kramer, recorded by Jimmy Dorsey. It hit number one on the Billboard charts on June 7, 1941. The lyric is in the voice of a child who has–with a sister–left a war zone by boat and begun a new life abroad.”
(It can be heard here.)
According to the Internet: “Pauline H. Hornyak was born on February 12th, 1924. Historic records show that Pauline died July 8th, 1997 in Brooklyn, New York, at the age of 73.”
Unknown Weegee
Berinson book
To be continued…
PM Daily, August 11, 1941
Bandit Roy Bennett, 27, was slain by detectives when he tried to escape after attempting to hold up the New York Delicatessen, 1288 Sixth Ave. He had arrived from Texas by bus a few hours earlier, apparently planning to try his hand as a big-city desperado.
PM Photo by Weegee
Weegee Daily, August 11, 2013
WD Photo by Ceegee
Published (Weegee’s World and the Berinson book) versions of the big-city desperado…
PM Daily, August 11, 1941
The Bandit shares the page with a tank burning from highly inflammable bottled benzine; the Lindberghs at an America First rally; the widow of the scientist who discovered the ‘magic bullet’ that cures syphilis; and the actor Robert Montgomery in the Navy in London…
Unidentified Photographer, August 1941
Surrounded by salmon: the young man who was working behind the counter at the New York Deli at 12:30 A.M. when Bennett attempted his sole New York stick-up… Apparently Bennett was “spotted as suspicious” (no stop and frisk) as he arrived at a New York bus station and followed by a pair of detectives…
New York Daily News, August 11, 1941
“Bullet Ends Texan’s Crime Career in N.Y.”
“A Texas small town boy with a mail order pistol launched his New York career at 10:30 P.M. Saturday night. At 12:30 A.M. yesterday. he died with his boots on and a detective’s bullet in his heart…”
Unidentified Photographer, New York Daily News, August 11, 1941, p.16
Tragedy In New York.
“Roy Bennett lies sprawled, face down and dead, on Sixth Ave…”
Unidentified Photographers, New York Daily News, August 11, 1941, p.16
Gloomy Sunday
Four Pictures of Trouble and Tragedy On Land and on Sea
Unidentified Photographer, “Detective Examining a Body,” August 10, 1941
A pair of screen shots from a photo agency…
Weegee Daily, August 11, 2013
WD Photo by Google Street View
To be continued…
PM Daily, August 6, 1941
Afterward, business as usual: Replacing burned-out bulbs in the Wrigley sign.
PM Photos by Weegee
Weegee Daily, August 6, 2013
Afterwork, business as usual: making photos, chewing fishgum, and (not) replacing (metaphorical) burned-out-compact-fluorescent bulbs…
WD Photos by Ceegee
PM Daily, August 4, 1941
“Our photographer tried to buy gas last night at Brick’s Service Station, Seventh Ave. and 20th St., but it wasn’t selling any…”
Weegee Daily, August 4, 2013
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