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Window cleaners clean windows of skyscrapers like the Empire State of Building and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Life of a Manhattan window cleaner working on skyscrapers in New York City, United States. The New York skyline. Views of landmark buildings and skyscrapers of Manhattan, New York City. Skyscrapers showing dirty windows. A window cleaner walks on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. He enters the Empire State Building (20 W 34th St., New York, NY 10001). He enters an office in the building. He attaches a safety belt and steps out of a window. The window cleaner cleans the exterior of the window. Another window cleaner cleans a shop window and wipes the glass. Views of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1000 5th Ave, New York, NY 10028, United States). A window cleaner places a ladder and climbs it up to reach a window. He cleans the window. A window cleaner cleans windowpanes. The window cleaner cleans exterior of the window and gets into office. He goes away after completing his work.
The Tammany Hall, City Hall and Municipal Hall of the City of New York City.
The buildings, architecture, and busy streets of Lower Manhattan, New York City. The Tammany Hall (44 Union Square E, New York, NY 10003, USA), City Hall (City Hall Park, New York, NY 10007, United States) and the Manhattan Municipal Building (1 Centre St, New York, NY 10007, USA). Pedestrians and cars in Lower Manhattan. 1934.
WPA laborers work at various development programs in New York City, United States.
Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects in New York City during the Great Depression. Aerial view of New York City as a plane flies by and clouds part to show Manhattan island below. Buildings and skyscrapers of New York City as seen from river and harbor views, with some ships and tugboats seen. Trucks on roads of Governor's Island at tip of Manhattan. An older home seen under renovation and reconstruction. View of the Brooklyn Navy Yard with WPA workers busy building and improving new roads and shops and warehouses near the docks. A bulkhead construction project is shown at Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, to reclaim land from the waters of the Bay. The work includes construction of a new Boulevard and sanitary and sewer system improvements. View of the front entrance of the Beaux Arts style Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House on Bowling Green at the tip of Manhattan. Pedestrians and WPA workers are seen in front of the building. WPA laborers on an unidentified Manhattan street (with elevated railway running in background) are busy removing old street car rail lines from the streets, in sections, and loading them into truck beds to haul away. Large public swimming pool and bath house construction projects are shown, influenced by city planner and avid swimmer Robert Moses (scene possibly shows McCarren Park pool - note archway seen under construction). WPA workers are seen building the new East River Drive, including highways, walks, and flanking parks. Construction workers seen building the roadway, with the Williamsburg Bridge in the background. A model of the project is shown with the new drive from Grand Street to 14th Street. Camera pans down from the Empire State Building to show the roof of the New York Public Library teeming with WPA workers as they remove the old corroded copper roof and replace it with a new metal roof. View of busy Manhattan streets below the workers, including a street car passing by.
Americans celebrate victory over Germany , ending World War II, in Europe. Crowds cheer in streets of Manhattan, New York
A huge crowd cheering and celebrating the news of victory over Germany, ending World War 2, in Europe, on May 8, 1945 (VE Day). Cheering crowds gathering at Times Square and Wall Street in lower Manhattan, New York City. American flags on display.
Manhattan, New York City, from perspective of children
Street scenes in midtown and lower Manhattan, New York City. The camera focuses on children, such as several shown on sidewalks being pulled along by their mothers. Traffic and pedestrians shopping near 7th Avenue. A girl looking at mannequin models wearing latest fashions in department store windows. A boy looking at the Empire State Building. View of Manhattan from Brooklyn Bridge Park. Children (mostly boys) are running and playing. One rides a bicycle. A tugboat nearby in the East River. (Boys throw stones in direction of a passing tugboat.) Skyscrapers are seen across the river. View of elevated train moving overhead, with skyscraper buildings in background. Views from the moving train. A boy riding inside the train, looking out at the canyons of tall buildings. Views of skyscrapers of New York City as seen from moving subway car or train car. Children with adults looking at Manhattan views and landmarks from the observation deck of a building. A girl looks down over the edge of the deck.
President Harry S. Truman announces surrender of Germany in World War II. Crowds celebrate in streets of Manhattan
VE Day (Victory in Europe) May 8, 1945. From the White House, in Washington DC, President Truman announces that Germany has surrendered, bringing World War 2 in Europe to an end. Americans are seen celebrating the good news in the streets of downtown, Manhattan, New York City. Crowds on Wall Street and cheering on steps and in front of statue of George Washington at Federal Hall. Ticker tape falls on Wall Street. View of Trinity Church between tall buildings. Cheering crowd fills Times Square. Many in the crowd are soldiers, sailors and other military servicemen in uniform. American flags are seen on buildings and some carried by people in the crowd.
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