Brooklyn borough of the New York City. Railroad yards at waterfront, with ships in background. Tugboat pulling a loaded barge along a canal. Exteriors of Brooklyn Borough Hall. Main gates of Brooklyn College. Exteriors of Plymouth Church of Pilgrims in Brooklyn Heights. Henry Ward Beecher statue at the church, including images of two slave girls crouching at its base. Steeples and domes of various houses of worship. View of cemetery with bust of Horace Greely among the stones and statuary.
Brooklyn borough of the New York City. View of Manhattan skyscrapers from Brooklyn rooftops. Park Slope, a neighborhood in the western section of Brooklyn shows houses. Laundry hanging to dry on numerous clothes lines strung between buildings. Large fashionable homes on shaded quiet streets. Traffic moves on a road. Horseback riders in Prospect Park. People in Prospect Park Zoo. Woman seated by a pond of Brooklyn Botanic Garden in front of Steinhardt Conservatory.
A rum running scandal at a port in Brooklyn, New York during Prohibition. Sacks of alcoholic liquors, on cargo motor ship "Shanaliam" intercepted by the Coast Guard. The smugglers are searched and arrested by authorities, as they leave the vessel. Some cover their faces from the camera. Stevedores unload the ship, as Coast Guard officer watches. The sacks are being loaded in trolleys. A few liquor bottles are shown. The sacks are loaded onto a truck. The truck is driven away. Two Coast Guard officers stand at the back of the truck.
U.S. battleship, USS Tennessee, sails up East River to Brooklyn Naval Yard. Next scene shows her heading back out to sea for maneuvers with a fleet in the Atlantic Ocean. in both, the Tennessee sails under the Brooklyn Bridge. Woolworth Building in Manhattan visible. A tugboat follows.View,upward, to roadbed of the Brooklyn Bridge, from vessel passing underneath. Crew members aboard the ship look at the skyline of New York City. A large boat filled with sightseers passes on the river. A group of U.S. Navy officers poses near a gun turret of the ship. A group of sailors sits under a three-gun turret aboard the ship. Commercial vessels moving in the river. Sailors at railing, look at skyline of Manhattan, New York City, as the ship passes on the East River. Ferry boats pass. View of the Statue of Liberty, in mist, framed above, by three of the Ship's 14 inch guns. Two Admirals and the USS Tennessee's officers, pose on deck, under two turrets with three 14 inch guns, in each. Sailors of the crew pose on deck of the battleship. A different time: December 25, 1918, Crewman in foul weather gear stands at railing of official Photographers boat, with battleships in background, during the great Naval review. A motor launch flying a two-star admiral's ensign, passes at high speed, with the Presidential Yacht, Mayflower, in background. The launch circles and reverses course.
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.
United States President Franklin Roosevelt campaigns in New York City during 1940 presidential election. A large crowd gathered to greet him in Newark, New Jersey. He arrives in the Presidential motorcade. Views of the motorcade driving past the crowd, as seen from a moving vehicle. Roosevelt seated in car beside New York Governor Herbert Lehman, and New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. Roosevelt addresses the people as the Presidential election campaign enters its final phase. Policemen control the large crowd. People seated to hear his speech. He addresses the gathering. The President officiates at the ground breaking for the $57,000,000 Brooklyn-Battery tunnel to connect Manhattan and Brooklyn.
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