View of Empire State Building in midtown, Manhattan, New York City. Pedestrians on a street near a police car. Front of the New York State Supreme Courthouse in Foley Square (60 Centre Street, lower Manhattan). Words visible atop the Corinthian columns: "The true administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government."
Cars, buses, taxi cabs, and other vehicles on Fifth Avenue, in New York City. Sign boards of show-rooms in the street. Several other buildings in the background. Pedestrians cross the street. Several pedestrians stand on the paved roads. United States flag on buildings. A man loads goods into a truck. Midtown Manhattan views, including New York Public library. Uniformed policemen directing traffic of various 1930's and 1940's cars and automobiles, from center of street.
Locomotives move on railroad tracks in railroad yard in Queens, New York City, United States. Smoke rises up from chimneys. Manhattan skyscrapers seen in distance. Views of crowded street in Times Square, New York City. Street cars and taxis move through streets filled with pedestrians. A truck carries goods. Advertisements and marquees at Times Square theaters include "My Darling Clementine" as well as Katherine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, and Robert Mitchum in "Undercurrent", Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, and Claude Rains in "Deception", and Rex Harrison and Lili Palmer in "Notorious Gentleman"
Golden Gloves amateur boxing competition in New York City at Madison Square Garden. Vermont's Bob Lefebvre and South Carolina's Charlie Kennett fight in the 112-lb semifinals. A crowd cheers the boxers. Bob Lefebvre wins. New York's Vince Shomo and Washington's Jimmy Biggs fight in the 135-lb match. Vince Shomo wins.
A guilty taken to a jail. Richard Whitney, President of New York Stock Exchange and his cashiered broker taken down a stair case with their faces covered. They get into a car and it pulls away. The party arrives at a prison in Ossining, New York. Prisoners look down at them from a prison window. Men enter the prison building. Interiors of the prison building.
Franklin D Roosevelt, as the Governor of New York, officiates at the opening dedication of the George Washington Bridge, in New York, over the Hudson River. He opens the bridge for traffic by cutting the tape. Traffic moves over the bridge.
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