# Bullet-riddled taxi after a gun battle with police in a New York City street (1931)

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A 1931 New York Times Paris Bureau photograph that the National Archives titles "Bullet-riddled taxi and the bodies of two gangsters in a New York City street after a gun battle with police." The catalog names no one and gives no street.

The National Archives catalog titles this photograph "Bullet-riddled taxi and the bodies of two gangsters in a New York City street after a gun battle with police." It is a negative in the New York Times Paris Bureau photo file, local identifier 306-NT-l680l3c (the TIFF file name reads 306-NT-168013c), and the catalog gives 1931 as the year it was produced. Its select-list identifier in the catalog is "AMCITY #128."

The picture is taken from above. A taxi stands in the street with its doors open and a covered form lies on the pavement beside it; men in straw hats and uniformed police stand around it, and a fire engine, trucks and a crowd are held back at the far end of the street. A shop sign at the lower left is cut off. No street name or number is legible.

The catalog does not name the dead men, the police, the street or the date of the shooting, and this page does not supply them. The words "gangsters" and "gun battle with police" are the catalog title's.

## Sources

- National Archives Catalog, Records of the U.S. Information Agency (RG 306), Photographic File of the Paris Bureau of the New York Times: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/541879
- National Archives series: Photographic File of the Paris Bureau of the New York Times (NAID 541877): https://catalog.archives.gov/id/541877