A Tragic NYC Moment Captured by 'Weegee'

Memories of photographer Arthur Fellig and FDNY's Charlie Hale.

Once upon a time, Arthur Fellig, a.k.a. “Weegee,” cruised around New York in a 1938 Chevrolet, waiting for the police radio he monitored to guide him to his next destination. From 1940 to 1945, his photos of accident and crime scenes appeared in the pages of daily newspaper PM, where he was a staff photographer.

Over the weekend, Charles Hale revisited those days on Irish Central and a photo taken by Weegee that he came upon recently in a book.

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