A New York Port Authority helicopter with pontoons is seen as it takes off. Aerial views of the New York City skyline in the late 1950s, the Statue of Liberty, the George Washington Bridge over the Hudson River, tugboats in the water, the ocean liner SS United States, and view approaching the Greek freighter Isbrandtsen on a small boat, with a uniformed port worker or officer preparing a docking throw rope.
View from the front, of Curtiss P-40 aircraft, from the U.S. Army Air Corps 8th Pursuit Group parked side-by-side with engines running on the flight line of Mitchel Field, Long Island, New York. View from their rear. Next, three flights of three aircraft each are flying at low altitude, over the shore and waters of Long Island.
View from a boat under way in New York Harbor, New York City. Twin towers of World Trade Center (still under final construction), and Lower Manhattan seen. Boat approaches Ellis Island. Ellis Island facilities and buildings seen. Old partially-sunken boat ruins and pier. Statue of Liberty in view.
A formation of 18 Curtiss P-40 aircraft, of the U.S.Army Air Corps 8th Pursuit Group, fly low over the shoreline of Long Island, New York, for gunnery practice. The bullets from their gunfire raise jets of water in the air as they strike the vicinity of what appears to be a sailboat target. Glimpse of a flight of three P-40s overhead. View of the floating target. More splashes from P-40 gunfire. A flight of 3 P-40s diving, and others forming up in formation. Remnants of the target in the water (World War II period).
People release their homing birds in Jackson Heights, Long Island, New York. People gather at a place. They release their pigeons. The pigeons fly in the sky. People watch the pigeons. The pigeons fly over buildings and towers.
View of Manhattan Island and skyscraper buildings of New York City, as seen from New York harbor, from dusk to night. A passenger ferry of the Staten Island Ferry, a passenger ferry service operated by the New York City Department of Transportation, approaches the city. The Statue of Liberty. Views of skyscrapers of New York City lit up at night; the tallest being the twin towers of the World Trade Center.
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