Instant Rehabilitation housing renovation project by Housing and Urban Department in the lower east side of Manhattan, New York City, working on a cluster of adjacent old-law tenements on East 5th Street (nos. 633–637) just south of Tompkins Square. Mayor John Lindsay in a ceremony. Construction workers stand on fire escapes and watch the ceremony. A man gives speech. Public gathered to watch the ceremony. Renovated buildings seen.
Instant Rehabilitation housing renovation and renewal project by Housing and Urban Department in New York City. Prefabricated kitchens and baths are lowered through the roof of old buildings on the lower east side. Paper reading 'Rehabilitation guide' seen. Housing and Urban Department officials discuss the construction project. Renovated building seen.
Film opens with view of Movie marquee showing film:"Echenme al vampiro * Evangelina Elizondo* en Rapto al Sol." Latin American music is heard in background. Various business signs are seen, for Gilroy & McLoughlin Bar & Grill,cabaret; Hair straightened; Various other shop windows showing womens clothing; Bric- a -brac including large photo of President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline; Religious items; Restaurant serving "CuchiFritos, y, Pasteles;"clothing on sale; Musicians and entertainers advertised; and numerous other similar storefront views. Views of busy sidewalk merchants selling variety of goods. What appears to be a section of the Cross Bronx Expressway, under construction above the street, in the background. Grocer operating outdoor fruit and vegetable outlet on the sidewalk. Many customers gathered around him. Pedestrians on crowded sidewalk. A little girl dressed in white (perhaps for a first communion). A man dispensing shaved ice or "sno-cone" drinks from a sidewalk cart. Furniture for sale displayed on sidewalk in front of a store. A man and woman looking it over. A couple with a small baby. Scene shifts fo a quiet street and sidewalk where a couple walks and a boy rides a bicycle. The street and sidewalk look wet. View of roof tops and back yards with clothes on lines to dry. Camera pans over roof tops. More clothes lines and families seen seated on fire escapes. A boy picking up items near a large heap of trash in a vacant lot. Children playing various games on an empty street. Two old women walking slowly on the walkway. Women with small children conversing on a building stoop. Young men gathering together and "rough housing." They are copied by small boys who fight with one another. Young man and woman with a baby stroll on the sidewalk.
Moving POV point of view shot as a pedestrian holding a camera walks on sidewalk along Nassau Street in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Crowded sidewalk with pedestrians in 1970's fashions. Manhattan streets busy with cars and trucks and taxis. Vendors selling their products including fruits and jewelry in stands set up on sidewalk. Traffic seen on the roads. A cafe advertising Frankfurters. Large sign "Goldsmith Bros" on the Goldsmith Bros. stationary and office supply store. Sign for "Barney's Discount Center" (Barneys New York).
View from ground of Twin Towers of World Trade Center, still under final construction, in lower Manhattan, New York City. People crowded on a sidewalk in New York City with sidewalk close up shots of pedestrians walking to work, wearing late 1960's and early 1970's fashions. Men and women workers walk.
View of Seatrain lines at harbor in New York City in the United States. People exit from the building of the Department of Marine Aviation and head toward Manhattan office buildings and taxi cabs. View of 1970s car traffic on busy streets and roads of Manhattan, New York City.
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