New York City then and now

An unusual collection of photographs from the archives of crime news of the New York Daily News newspaper made in the style of “then and now”. Added description, references to the scene and in some places the original photo to make it clearer.

1. March 19, 1942. In the photo Edna Egbert mother soldier who went to the front, and from which there was not a single news since then. Deciding that his son was killed, she was mad with grief and went to the cornice of the building to jump off. But to do this was not easy, and she was left standing outside in silence looking at the gathering crowd of onlookers. After some time, the police pulled the bottom of the network, and the two officers got out of the windows of neighboring apartments to persuade her to go back inside. When a persuasion failed, they tried to just push it down. Instead of falling, Edna began to shout and fight back.

 July 1, 1928. In the photo the body of Frankie Yale, one of the most influential gangster in Brooklyn at the time. Sitting at the bar, he received a phone call from an unknown, who reported that his wife something happened. Yale jumped into his new Lincoln sedan and drove home. At an intersection next to him stood a Buick with four armed men tried to break away and Yale. But was caught, shot, lost control and crashed into a residential building near Borough Park.

January 11, 1951. In the photo a large fire almost destroyed the Church of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary in the Brooklyn neighborhood Karrols Gardens. Later the church was restored.

 July 28, 1958. Just got out of jail a resident of New York decided not to pull, and immediately return to his usual craft – hijacking cars. The car he stole something, but it is far to go and could not. At the corner of Pacific and Classon he exceeded the speed limit, lost control and crashed into a pole. The day went by routine: prison-liberation-theft alarm, and again a prison.

 July 28, 1958. Just got out of jail a resident of New York decided not to pull, and immediately return to his usual craft – hijacking cars. The car he stole something, but it is far to go and could not. At the corner of Pacific and Classon he exceeded the speed limit, lost control and crashed into a pole. The day went by routine: prison-liberation-theft alarm, and again a prison.

 July 22, 1943. 105-mm self-propelled gaubitsa M7 “Priest” (priest) drives past City Hall on the way to the building of the New York Public Library on 42nd Street, where it was exhibited as part of the military exposure.

December 17, 1960. Picture taken on the day after the terrible plane crash, when the sky above New York faced airplanes United Airlines, Flight 826 and Trans World Airlines, flight 266. The wreckage of one of the planes fell on a residential area of ??Brooklyn Park Slope and destroyed many homes. As a result, almost all of the passengers were killed airliners (128 people) and 6 people on the ground. The only survivor was 11-year-old boy Stephen Balcem, who fell into the snow. Unfortunately, he lived only one day and suddenly died of pneumonia. At that time it was the biggest crash in the history of civil aviation. 

 Photos made by Life magazine photographer with almost the same angle.

April 4, 1959. 3-year term in March Cartagena was hit by a car when rolled around on a tricycle in front of his house. Pictured pastor comforts her older sister. On the brick wall of the building still have the chips and scratches left from that tragic incident.

February 26, 1961. Fire in the buildings of the old fish market. The buildings are still standing, although some of them were a few floors below.

 July 30, 1950. Police officers guard the body detective Michael Dower, who committed suicide.

September 25, 1961. Josephine Deksidor keeps bleeding Lenaresa James, who was gunned down by her jealous husband on the stairs of a residential building in the Bronx.

February 16, 1958. A serious fire in the building of Elkins Paper & Twine Co. claimed the lives of six firefighters. The building was completely destroyed, and his remains were taken down immediately after the remains recovered from the ashes of the dead.