[Cellist Gustave Berger at rehearsal for "Three Gifts" at Yiddish Art Theatre, New York]

[Woman eating eskimo pie and reading latest news on Times Building, New York]

[Woman looking to see where plane crashed into Empire State Building, New York]

[Man looking to see where plane crashed into Empire State Building, New York]

[Man looking to see where plane crashed into Empire State Building, New York]

[Girl looking to see where plane crashed into Empire State Building, New York]

[Girl looking to see where plane crashed into Empire State Building, New York]

[Sailor with dummies of Mussolini, Hitler, and Hirohito at benefit ball at Waldorf- Astoria, New York]

"War time New York: Pleasure Driving Ban Raises Crop of Windshield Excuses"

"War time New York: Pleasure Driving Ban Raises Crop of Windshield Excuses"

"War Time New York: Air Raid Wardens Rib Themselves in Free Show"

"War Time New York: Air Raid Wardens Rib Themselves in Free Show"

[Wartime rationing: crowds in front of J. & A. Solomon meat market, New York]

[Wartime rationing: crowds in front of J. & A. Solomon meat market, New York]

[Wartime rationing: crowds in front of J. & A. Solomon meat market, New York]

[Installation view of Weegee's exhibition in "Art in Progress" at the Museum of Modern Art, New York]

[Weegee playing dead for audience at "Murder by Weegee," The Gamut Arts Club, New York]

[Weegee playing dead for audience at "Murder by Weegee," The Gamut Arts Club, New York]

[Window display for Weegee's Naked City at Chaucer Head Book Shop, New York]

[Man climbing fire escape ladder in front of Freda Barber Shop, New York]

[Nurse holding two-week-old abandoned girl, Foundling Home, New York]

[Barber Salvatore Ossido taken to police station for murder of Einer Sporrer, New York]

[Child who got hand stuck in cup machine at movie theater, New York]

[Barber Salvatore Ossido taken to police station for murder of Einer Sporrer, New York]