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New York City police officers on horseback ride along New York City street beside Central Park
Views of New York City mounted police officers riding on horse back. Policemen moving in organized two rows, led by another three policemen on three horses. The policemen ride along a Manhattan street and alongside Central Park. Vintage 1930's cars, buses, and trucks on road, people walking on footpath can be seen. Various Manhattan buildings along the street.
New York City policemen outside the 18th precinct station in New York City.
Exterior view of the 18th Precinct station of the New York City Police at 306 W. 54th Street New York City (now known as Midtown North Precinct). Police officers exit the station building and walk in a line then halt at a place for a roll call or briefing. An officer reads instructions and gives a briefing, and then the cops disperse in various directions. The scene is repeated from different camera angles, including closeups of some of the police officers and their uniforms.
Contrast of living conditions in New York City; children playing, cars parked and people sit outside their houses in New York City.
Elevated views and busy street views of automobile and pedestrian traffic on streets of New York City in the late 1930s. A streetcar stopped in the street. A roadside news stand. Men in suits and women in dresses walking on sidewalks near office buildings and stores in New York City. Children of late primary school or middle school age walking to school. Children exiting a school bus to go to school Two boys wrestle as a group of boys gathers around and encourages them. Girls play a game like "London Bridge is falling down." Scene changes to a farm field with a farmer plowing a field with his tractor. A farmer cuts crops with a sickle. Brief view of the main street in a small town somewhere in the United States, likely east. Scene changes again to a neighborhood with nice homes and two girls play skipping rope at a house. A woman prepares toast in a electric toaster. Vegetables and food items seen on shelves of an open refrigerator in a home. Scene changes to dense urban tenements and scenes of relative poverty in New York City. Elevated view looking out over dense tenements and apartment homes. Two young women sit on sleeping cots on a rooftop 1930s cars parked on a narrow street among crowded city dwellings, and and people sit outside their houses. Kids playing "stoop ball" throwing a ball against steps of their dwelling on the lower east side of Manhattan. A movie promotion poster advertises "Yellow Jack" playing at the Loews Commodore Theatre . Children play.
Children at play during the Great Depression; children in poverty and in city of New York
A slum area with a shack of tin and wood during the Great Depression. A boy emerges from the shack. In a poverty stricken area, women and a girl with small babies in their laps. Children play a game "dog and a bone" that they are taught by a man. New York City street scenes: A board reads "Driving thru a play street is a traffic violation". Play Street closed. Children playing in the streets.
Diversity of different people in New York City in the late 1930's. Chinese, Jewish, and African American areas of New York City.
Ethnically diverse people along streets in New York City. People of Chinese origin in Chinatown. Scene changes to a Jewish area with signs on market shops in Hebrew. A board at a shop reads "Strictly Kosher A Goldberg & Son Poultry Market". A view of busy shops and push cart vendors on Orchard Street near Delancey Street on the lower east side of Manhattan. Store fronts visible include Cohens Opticians at 117 Orchard Street. Two men in hats talk together. One of the men has a long beard. Scene changes to Harlem with an elevated view of sidewalk as pedestrians walk by and children play, fencing with toy wooden swords. African American men talk in a Harlem neighborhood of New York City (likely Harlem). African American children play games and skip rope. A boy writes with a chalk on a sidewalk.
A man takes out money from his wallet to purchase ticket at a Ticket Office in New York City.
Dramatization shows a 'Ticket Office' board at an office in New York City. A man takes out money from his wallet to purchase ticket. A woman at counter hands over ticket to him.