[Installation view of "Weegee: Murder Is My Business" at the Photo League, New York]

[Installation view of "Weegee: Murder Is My Business" at the Photo League, New York]

[Weegee and Edith Smith at party for "Naked City" at Sammy's on the Bowery, New York]

[Weegee and Edith Smith at party for "Naked City" at Sammy's on the Bowery, New York]

[Weegee and Edith Smith at party for "Naked City" at Sammy's on the Bowery, New York]

[1949 Activities Conducted by the Educational Alliance, New York, with markings in Vishniac’s hand]

[Couple watching their tenement apartment burn, Lower East Side, New York]

Dead Man under 3rd Avenue El, New York City

Sixth Avenue between 43rd and 44th Streets, New York

[Tenement sleeping during heat spell, Lower East Side, New York]

[Female cab driver with Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade clown, New York]

[Maintenance men repairing ship on Pier 90 on the Hudson River, New York]

[After an all-night party, fountain at Washington Square Park, New York]

[After an all-night party, fountain at Washington Square Park, New York]

[Natalia Munez, Art Students' League Ball, Commodore Hotel, New York]

[Dixie Girl and her seven puppies at Dixie Rose A.C., New York]

"New York's 'Double Red' Okay; Times Square Crowds Move Fast"

[Lower East Side shoppers cross poultry strike line, New York]

[Woman reacting in shock to news of assassination of John F. Kennedy, New York]

[Firefighters carrying musician and her violin to safety after fire, New York]

[Two women approaching brougham, Hewitt mansion, Lexington Avenue, New York]

[Carola Kip in hansom cab, Hewitt mansion, Lexington Avenue, New York]

[Carola Kip in hansom cab, Hewitt mansion, Lexington Avenue, New York]

[Virginia Schneider swooning at Frank Sinatra concert, Paramount Theatre, New York]