Saying good-bye to the photographer known for shooting New York street scenesIn Memory of Helen Levitt | Today 12:00 pm

Iconic photographer Helen Levitt died at the age of 95 on Sunday.

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p> Levitt, who was born in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, was renowned for a decades-long career documenting her home city of New York in her glorious photos that captured the daily drama of city life. Her photos often depicted unguarded moments in the lives of children, and were among the greatest of those shot in the late ’30s and ’40s. This 1939 photo (left) of three kids getting ready to trick-or-treat remains one of her best.

A high-school dropout with artistic yearnings, Levitt learned her craft after apprenticing with commercial photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. They met when he spent a year in New York and,

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