Train carrying New York Governor and Presidential candidate Franklin Roosevelt (FDR). Boston citizens gather to see Franklin Roosevelt. Sign saying “Our Next President Franklin Roosevelt”. Supporters wave American flags during Franklin Roosevelt’s speech onstage. New York citizens wait in line to vote outside polling station. Former New York Governor, Al Smith, and his wife, Catherine Ann Dunn, walk together to their polling station. Al Smith is seen wearing his famous “brown derby”. View of Franklin Roosevelt waiting for election returns. Crowd in Times Square waiting for election updates. Police patrols the crowd. People cheer all over New York City when Franklin Roosevelt wins the election. Franklin Roosevelt smiles. Franklin Roosevelt swims in pool to relax after election victory.
American communists stage a protest in front of the New York Ford headquarters at 1710 Broadway at West 54th Street during the Great Depression. Protesters hold placards while marching on the street, then known as "Automobile Row" in New York. Police stand nearby. Crowds gathered outside a drugstore and Martin’s Waffle Shop. Hanging store sign reads “Drugs Soda”. Crowds of protesters and cars gathered on the street. Men raising placards outside a building. 1932 Lincoln KB with Greyhound hood ornament in showroom behind glass with police walking by. Group of police officers walking on sidewalk in front of 1710 Broadway.
Communists march in New York City. American flag is carried at head of procession. Protest signs of various kinds carried by the marchers. The event is disrupted by a number of smoke bombs ignited in the streets. However, neither marchers, police, nor spectators seem intimidated. Street car seen. Number of cars and commercial vehicles seen.
Harbor craft launch water fountains on the arrival of Amelia Earhart. A huge ticker tape parade welcomes Earhart back to New York. Thousands of New Yorkers gather on streets and join the parade. Ticker tapes being showered in the parade. Earhart with New York Mayor Jimmy Walker. Holding flowers she christens a car.
Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) soldiers and officers march in New York for Memorial Day parade, together with veterans of World War 1 and other American conflicts. Elevated view of Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Riverside Park on Manhattan Island, decorated in patriotic bunting. Hudson River visible in background. View changes to parade route immediately beside the monument in Riverside Park. Marchers carry U.S. flags in hands. Ground level shot captures boots and lower legs only marching along. Veterans of World War 1, some missing limbs and using crutches, march in the parade. Also seen are National Guard units in uniform. Elderly veterans of the American Civil War are seen in the reviewing stands. An honor guard in German Army uniforms passes with three uniformed German soldiers carrying the French flag, American flag, and Imperial German War flag (Reichskriegsflagge or Empire War Flag, flown by some German nationalists in the 1920s and 1930s in protest of the Weimar Republic). They might be members of Friends of New Germany, which preceded the German American Bund. American Civil War veterans seen marching together in the parade, arms linked.
Jewish people in New York City lower east side are seen in crowded outdoor market areas, busy shopping in shopping for foods for the Jewish passover festival commemorating the Exodus from Egypt. The lower east side Ghetto busy with Jews buying matzos, and people unable to afford matzos (during Great Depression) are given matzos at no charge .Merchandise and push carts lined along streets. Shops and shopkeepers bargain with customers buying foods. Men wearing hats and beards, and women are in the lines. Hebrew writing on store front windows. Line of Jewish people outside a building of a Jewish charitable agency supplying matzos. Men and women seen after receiving matzo bread.