Ka taƙaita labarin:  Wadannan hotuna masu ban sha'awa suna nuna zuciyar New York a tsakiyar karni na 20 - da kuma yadda lokutan suka canza a cikin birni. Hotunan da aka dauka a cikin 1940s da 1950s ta hanyar shahararren mai daukar hoto Arthur Fellig, wanda aka fi sani da Weegee, an nuna su tare da hotuna na wuraren da aka kama a wannan watan. Sun haɗa da hoton wani mutum da yake kwance da giya kusa da tsohon hedkwatar sashen 'yan sanda a kan Center Street a shekara ta 1945 - da kuma wannan wurin shekaru 70 bayan haka. An nuna wani mutum yana kwance a ƙasa a kan Center Street a cikin hoto na 1945 mai suna 'Derelict yana barci a kan titin a waje da ofishin 'yan sanda' (hagu). Wata mata tana wucewa ta hanyar wannan alamar da aka zana don tsohuwar Sashen 'Yan Sanda a ranar 18 ga Maris na wannan shekarar (dama) Walƙiya ta buge sama da Lower Manhattan a ranar 27 ga Yuli, 1940 (a sama) a cikin hoton da almara mai daukar hoto Arthur Fellig ya ɗauka. Hoton da aka dauka daga wannan wuri mai kyau (kasa) ya nuna yadda yanayin ya canza a cikin shekaru 75 da suka gabata. Haske mai haske: Hoton Weegee na 'Neon billboards a Times Square' (a sama), wanda aka dauka a watan Satumba na 1957, da kuma hoton da aka dauka daga wannan wuri a farkon wannan watan (a kasa) ya nuna yadda yankin ya canza a tsawon shekaru. Hoton 1940 na Lower Manhattan, wanda aka ɗauka da daddare daga ƙetaren kogin kusa da Brooklyn Bridge, an mamaye shi da manyan gine-gine guda uku, bambanci mai ban mamaki ga gandun daji na hasumiya yanzu kewaye da 1 World Trade. Hoton 1946 yana nuna wuta a cikin ginin da ke kan titin Fulton da Greenwich. Hanyar da ba za a iya ganewa ba ga Weegee a yau: Yana da shafin yanar gizon 9/11 Memorial da gidan kayan gargajiya. Hoton 1952 yana nuna babban dutse mai daraja na One Times Square, inda har yanzu ana amfani da hasumiya a kan rufin don saukar da ƙwallon Sabuwar Shekara. A yau, an rufe bangon gidan da allon talla. Amma ra'ayin Weegee na 1957 na Times Square yana nuna tallan neon, gami da samfuran da suka tsufa yanzu kamar na'urorin TV na Admiral tare da sanannun sunaye kamar Budweiser. A yanzu, shaguna da kasuwanni sun taso a kan titin Doyers a tsakiyar New...
Hotunan da mai daukar hoto Arthur Fellig, wanda aka fi sani da Weegee, ya nuna rayuwa a New York a cikin 1940s da 50s. An dauki hotunan wadannan wurare a wannan watan kuma sun nuna yadda birnin ya canza sosai tun daga lokacin. Hotunan yakin da aka zana daga tarihin Cibiyar Hotuna ta Duniya kuma sun bayyana a cikin sabon littafi.