PM Daily, June 14, 1942
“It Was Hot
Helen George had been watching the parade for six hours when the heat got her. She fainted on the corner of Fifth Ave. and 50th St. Cops revived her quickly and sent her home.”
PM Photo by Weegee
Weegee Daily. June 14, 2013
It Was Wet
WD Photo by Ceegee
PM Daily, June 8, 1941
“The Cumfort Hotel, an unoccupied flop house at 21 Bowery, was swept by fire yesterday. Battalion Chief Patrick Carey and Fireman Thomas Deady fell from a ladder while climbing to the roof. Here is Deady being taken to a hospital where he was found to be suffering from concussion of the brain. Chief Carey suffered only bruises.
PM Photo by Weegee
Weegee Daily, June 8, 2013
The Cumfort Hotel is now the Confucius Florist…
PM Daily, June 1, 1941
An End to Liberty
“This rhesus monkey went AWOL from his unknown owner and tore around Duane Street until ASPCA inspectors cornered him in the girls room of the Star Bookbinding Co. Tom Barnshaw lured him with a banana.” Photo by Weegee
Weegee Daily, June 2, 2013
Liberty Forever…
Approximate site of 66 Duane St… A place of remembrance… A scared site… The African Burial Ground National Monument…
Photos by Ceegee
NYPL Direct Me, 1940 phone book…
Weegee Daily, May 24, 2013
A Weegee Daily Map!
PM Daily, April 2, 1941
“Auto Crash: These two women were in a cab which was in collision with two other cars at Grand and Lafayette Streets last night. Their expressions tell the whole story. Our photographer arrived just before the women were removed to Beekman Street Hospital.
Photo By Weegee
Weegee Daily, April 2, 2013
Auto: Cab driving East on Grand and Lafayette streets last evening… I could be wrong, but I think this photo was another of my discoveries. It was “unknown” until I found it in an old newspaper… Beekman Street Hospital (Founded in 1905; 117 Beekman Street, Manhattan)… Taxis were dangerous 70 years ago, and they still drive dangerously today…
Photo by Ceegee
PM Daily, April 1, 1945
“At midnight both the elite and bums have left Sammy’s on the Bowery; only a milk drinker remains while Sammy counts the receipts.”
Photo by Weegee
Weegee Daily, April 1, 2013
“At noon, both the elite and bums have left 267 Bowery; only no one remains…”
Photo by Ceegee
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…
Weegee Daily, March 26, 2013
Outside Manhattan
By Ceegee
Good Ol’Witch and Friend
Photo by Google Street View
Weegee Daily Map!
(To be continued…)
PM Daily, March 25, 1943
“The Gotham Hotel Supply Co., 401 W. 14th St., a subsidiary of Wilson & Co. received plenty of beef yesterday for its restaurant and hotel trade. Around the corner Wilson & Co. retail branch outlet, no meat was being sold to butchers.
PM Photo by Weegee”
Weegee Daily, March 26, 2013
401 West 14th St… Plenty of Apples…
WD Photo by Ceegee
Here’s half the crowd at 3 p.m. yesterday, first Sunday of spring. For rest, lay paper flat to see front and back pages together…
Sunday sunners in overcoats at Coney. On beach. a few in bathing suits. Mercury stood at 52 when Weegee took picture…
PM Daily, March 24, 1941
Spring Clicks With the 150,000 At Coney… Weegee Just Clicks
By Weegee
I left the city Sunday afternoon 1 o’clock…
PM Photos by Weegee
Here’s most of the crowd at 1:09 p.m. today, first Sunday of Spring…
And if you look sharply here you’ll see a few young seagulls standing.
Till the sands of Coney Island grow wings.
Sunday strollers in Occupy Wall St. coats at Coney. On beach, no one in bathing suits. Mercury stood at 45 (35% humidity) when Ceegee took picture…
Weegee Daily, March 24, 2013
Spring Clicks With the 100s At Coney… Ceegee Just Clicks
By Ceegee
I left the city Sunday morning at around 11:30 a.m. The F train was jammed with straphangers.
When I finally reached Coney their was very little traffic… And a fair number of cops… I missed the christening of the Cyclone, and caught the end of a protest, (to paraphrase: “Your Amusement Isn’t Amusing!”)… On the boardwalk I didn’t see the usual sun bathers. There was almost no one on the beach, just a few photographers and beachcombers, and no one was wearing bathing suits… Many of the concessions were closed.
The salt air made me hungry. So I baked a Dutch Apple Cake (see below) and drank a few cups of green tea. If I feel all right I’ll go to work tomorrow.
It took me over an hour to ride the subway back to the city. The connection from the uptown F to the uptown 6 is now possible and amazing. It was the first day that the Cyclone and Wonder Wheel, etc. were open for the season and for the first time since super storm Sandy…
I wonder what will happen in the summertime.
WD Photos by Ceegee
Weegee Daily Map!
PM Daily, March 23, 1944
Where There’s Smoke There Must Be a Picture
1. When fire broke out yesterday in the top floor of Lerner Shops on 14th St., every paper in town rushed photographers to the scene. Our Weegee, seeking an angle, arranged this interesting shot of a rescue…
2. Weegee (above) got Ruth Flax to pose with the victim… (“When I was taking a Mail Order Course in Photography,” Weegee’s caption memo to us explained, “the ‘Professor’ always advised me to put human interest in my fire pictures.”)…
3. Things got more complicated…
4. P. S. The fire? It was a dud. But we covered it!
Photos by Weegee, Dan Keleher and Arthur Leipzig
Weegee Daily, March 23, 2013
One of the best PM pages…
P. S. The building looks good as a negative…
To be continued…
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