New York Crime Photos – Superimposing Then and Now (Warning: Graphic)
BY ADMIN · JANUARY 10, 2015
Alongside all the glitz and glamour, New York has always had a grim and grisly side. Mark Hermann, photographer and historian for the New York Press Photographers Association, has stitched together imagery collected from the New York Daily News archive, showing crime photos from the not-so-distant past, superimposed on the sanitized New York of today. Be warned – his film-noir-esq images are not for the faint of heart.
Here we have images of murders, shootings, car accidents and even a plane crash, all juxtaposed over the exact same location today. While we may wax nostalgic about the glory days of the past, these images paint a rather different picture – one which makes today look rather bright, cheerful and… colorful.
On the other hand, it’s also striking how much New York hasn’t changed. The buildings in many of these shots, besides a few coats of paint and some new windows (if they’re lucky), are identical. Hermann points out one more thing that hasn’t changed:
“People seem to have righteous indignation in the comments section of news stories when we show tragic scenes as they occur today. I often remind people that a victim in 1943 is the same as a victim in 2013, and today’s photographers are making an important record of history that will, with the passage of time, be regarded as ‘classic.’”
Above: On March 19, 1942 Edna Egbert who lived at 497 Dean St in Brooklyn, climbed onto her ledge. The New York Daily News captured the distraught woman fighting with the police as she wobbled on the edge.
Gangster Salvatore Santoro met his end in the vestibule of 427 1/2 Hicks St. on Jan. 31, 1957. Here’s how the building looks then and now.
The wreckage after the mid-air crash of United Airlines Flight 826 and Trans World Airlines Flight 266 over New York City in December 1960. Over 130 people were killed aboard the planes and on the ground in Brooklyn.
On April 4, 1959 three-year-old Martha Cartagena was riding her tricycle when she was struck and killed on Porter Ave. in Brooklyn.
Where North Face storefronts now reside there was a massive and fatal fire at the Elkins Paper & Twine Co. on Feb. 16, 1958. Six were killed by the blaze and the building was leveled.
In this stairwell of 992 Southern Blvd. on Sept. 25, 1961, James Linares lays bleeding in the arms of his girlfriend Josephine Dexidor after being shot by her husband.
Prospect Park on Sunday July 30, 1950. This usually quiet neighborhood was shook by the suicide of Detective Michael Dwyer, seen here.
A stolen car smashed into the streetlight at Classon Avenue and Pacific Street in Brooklyn, 1957.
Photographer Marc A. Hermann and his colleagues, separated by 70 years.
Read more at http://www.visualnews.com/2013/09/16/new-york-crime-photos-superimposing-now-warning-graphic/#d3zKiYMSjsZJ36zq.99
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