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NYC’s Grisly Past Crimes Through the Eyes of MARC HERMANN

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Photographer and historian Marc Hermann wants us to remember that in a city like New York, every square foot has its story. He found images of crime scenes and disasters on the NYC streets from New York Daily News and merged them with his photos of the same spot in present day. For me, it’s making me think of block universe theory, where linear time is an illusion and every event that has ever happened is coexisting at the same point. That’s a concept I find near impossible to wrap my mind around, but these time-collage images from Marc Hermann give my mind something to go off of. Check them out below…

Photos: Marc Hermann

Captions via Vintag.es

Edna Egbert, who lived at 497 Dean St. in Brooklyn, climbed onto her ledge on March 19, 1942. The News captured the distraught woman fighting with the police as she wobbled on the edge. The building is currently painted red, but remains nearly identical to the way it looked 70 years ago.
James Linares lays bleeding in the arms of his girlfriend Josephine Dexidor on September 25th, 1961 after being shot by her husband.
The wreckage of United Airlines Flight 826 and Trans World Airlines Flight 266, which crashed over NYC in December of 1960.
A stolen car is shown crashed into the light pole at the corner of Classon Ave. and Pacific St. on July 28, 1957.
An M-7 tank destroyer being transported from City Hall to the Public Library on 42nd St. to be put on display on July 22, 1943.
The aftermath of a car wreck that took the life of three-year-old Martha Cartagena, who was riding her tricycle when she was struck and killed on Porter Ave. in Brooklyn on April 4th, 1959.
This photo shows the death of gangster Frankie Yale, whose car slammed into the steps of a Brooklyn home after he was shot from an adjacent car on July 1st, 1928.
The aftermath of a massive and fatal fire at the Elkins Paper & Twine Co. on Wooster St. on February 16th, 1958.
Firefighters try to put out the fire that tore through the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary & St. Stephen Roman Catholic Church in January of 1951.
The aftermath of a massive gas explosion that blew out the windows of the building on 66 Court St. on January 31st, 1961.
Firefighters work to put out a blaze at 31 Grand St. in Brooklyn in February of 1946.
Detective Michael Dwyer seen here in Prospect Park after he committed suicide on Sunday July 30, 1950.
Gangster Salvatore Santoro seen dead in the vestibule of his Hicks St. apartment on January 31st, 1957.
Firefighters put out a fire at the Fulton Fish Market in the South Street Seaport on February 26th, 1961.
Photographer and creator of this series Marc A. Hermann standing next to the shadow of his colleagues from 70 years ago.
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Meghan MacRae grew up in Vancouver, Canada, but spent many years living in the remote woods. Living in the shadow of grizzly bears, cougars and the other predators of the wilderness taught her about the dark side of nature, and taught her to accept her place in nature's order as their prey. She is co-founder of CVLT Nation.

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