For the first fourth dimension in 12 years New Yorkers are elect a mayor who is not Michael Bloomberg , leading to all sorts ofreminiscingabout how he ’s alter the metropolis . These photo offer a twist : grisly diachronic crimes , juxtaposed against Bloomberg ’s sanitized modern - mean solar day New York City .
Photographer and historian of theNew York Press Photographers AssociationMarc Hermanndove into theNew York Daily News archiveto find historic offence scenes , and mashed them up with photographs of the same locations today . The resulting images offer a haunting windowpane into the tragic events of the yesteryear , like a Noir picture playing out in real time on an empty city block .
What ’s perhaps most dramatic about these simulacrum is how much New York has n’t changed . For the most part many of the building are still entire , and it ’s delightful to see the elusive phylogeny of details like streetsigns . Plus there ’s something about see the black - and - white criminal offense scenery in contemporary stage setting , which desensitizes the violence somewhat by removing it from its context .
Top image : On March 19 , 1942 Edna Egbert fought with police force after she climbed on her Dean Street shelf in Brooklyn .
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