The Daily Mail has some incredible photos taken by legendary street photographer Weegee. The photos are from the International Center for Photography’s archives and will soon be published in a new book called The Weegee Guide To New York, presented side-by-side with recent shots from the same spots. Weegee was a photojournalist who captured gritty […]
Fifty years of crimes scene and accident photography by the legendary Enrique Metinides a.k.a. “Mexican Weegee” go on view at Aperture Gallery tonight. The work, hand-selected by Metinides and curated by Tisha Ziff, editor of the monograph 101 Tragedies of Enrique Metinides, will be paired alongside original newspaper tear sheets and other contextualizing ephemera. Accompanying […]
Today at 10am, collectors and hoarders alike will get the chance to bid on New York City memorabilia as upscale auction house Sotheby’s partners with lowbrow online marketplace eBay for its first ever sale on the website. The items include art, signs, and even a 9-foot tall Statue of Liberty that is estimated to fetch […]
To get a better sense of which movie crits are worth trusting, the people at Vocativ did a quantitative analysis of the scores they’ve given the 200 top-grossing films of the past 10 years. At the top of the chart are the critics who are inclined towards fawning, at the bottom are those who, in […]
New York City murders for the first half of 2013 totalled just 156, down 25% percent from the first half of 2012. Homicides hit their lowest number since the early 1960’s in 2012. The NYPD claims that this is a result of placing extra police officers in certain high crime “impact zones” and its anti-gang program […]
