Danny Lyon Beekman Street subbasement. The demolition contract requires that the building be brought down to street level. Basements and tunnels are filled in and left buried beneath vacant lots
Weegee Right after I took the photo above... the street blew up... the water main pipes broke... the gas main caught fire... followed by an explosion... five hundred tenement dwellers in the block were driven from their homes.
Roman Vishniac [Page 7 from Vishniac’s scrapbook containing a National Refugee Services (NRS) advertisement with photographs by Vishniac featuring Jewish refugees in the U.S. Army and trained by the NRS as technicians (early to mid-1940s)]
