article_snippet: A lightning bolt strikes above Lower Manhattan on July 27, 1940 (top) in a picture taken by legendary crime photographer Arthur Fellig.
article_snippet: A 1946 image shows a fire in a loft building at Fulton and Greenwich streets.
article_snippet: The intersection would be unrecognizable to Weegee today: The intersection's the site of the 9/11 Memorial and museum.
article_snippet: Weegee photographed a fire on the same street (top) on January 17, 1941 .
article_snippet: Weegee photographed The Empire State Building in 1943 (left) from behind a 'loans sign'.
article_snippet: Fire crews battle a blaze at the intersection of Fulton and Greenwich Streets in a 1946 picture called 'Fire in a loft building' (left).