{"id":4784,"date":"2016-05-16T17:46:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T17:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booyorkcity.com.routing.yourhost.co\/?p=4784"},"modified":"2021-02-10T12:38:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T12:38:08","slug":"weegees-bowery-flop-houses-drunks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booyorkcity.com\/weegees-bowery-flop-houses-drunks\/","title":{"rendered":"Weegee’s Bowery of flop houses and drunks"},"content":{"rendered":"
Press photographer Weegee\u2019s Bowery was a Skid Row of derelicts and drunks \u2013 a world away from the boutique hotels and hipster joints that line the street today.<\/p>\n
In the 40s and 50s, it was notorious for fleabag hotels, flop houses that offered 25-cent-per-night beds, and crowded all-night missions that provided food and shelter to those who could afford neither.<\/p>\n