New Yorkers crowd the beach at Brighton Beach in Brooklyn NY. USA. Sunbathers in front of a building written with “Brighton Baths”. Two women, wearing black “Bathing dresses”, lying on the beach. People diving from a springboard and sliding from a water slide to a pool. Beachgoers taking a swim on the beach. Beachgoers swimming on choppy water. Two beachgoers securely hold on to a rope fence while waves crashing on the beach. A man waves his arms while sitting on another man’s shoulders before falling as waves crash on them and other rowdy beachgoers.
Women modeling fashionable summer dresses in New York City. A model shows off her floral beach pajama outfit, then sits on an inflatable beach mattress. A woman wearing a floral dress and sun hat smiles. A model wears a sun hat fascinator with fruit adornments. A woman wearing a wide-brimmed bamboo sun hat. A woman wearing a floral wrap dress and a white Dutch cap-inspired summer hat. A woman models a summer hat adorned with feathers.
An Italian athlete plays tennis at the West Side Tennis Club (1 Tennis Pl, Forest Hills, NY 11375, United States) in Forest Hills, Queens, New York City. Tennis players compete on a grass court. Fans and audience in the viewing stands clapping their hands. Athletes play during a tennis game. Flags of the United States and Italy are displayed during the competition.
Sign at 700 Park Avenue (700 Park Ave, New York, NY 10021, USA) reads “700 Park Avenue Luxury Cooperative Apartments 6-7-9 Rooms Occupancy Summer 1960”. Camera pans to show building under construction. Two men talking near a doorway. A construction worker shoveling cement into hoppers. A man stands on scaffolding holding a tree branch. A man directs a crane to put a cement hopper down as cars pass. Hopper is raised as view of crane operator in cab is seen. A man pushes a wheel barrow full of cement. Cement hopper in air lifted by crane. A man with sunglasses looks up into the sky. A construction worker with hard hat at work.
View of community in South Bronx in New York City. The film gives details like the population size and the number of unemployed males. A plane in view. Aerial views of South Bronx New York show children playing on roofs of buildings. Aerial view of woman collecting clothes from clothes line on roof. Aerial view of pigeon coops and pigeons on roof. Boy flying kite from roof. Girl balancing on roof while boy hammers wood on roof. Aerial view of elevated train. Boys play basketball. POV sequence shows views of South Bronx and New York from a moving elevated train moving along Westchester Avenue near E. !56th Street, first through front of train and then through side. Short sequences cut in show boy swinging baseball bat, man smoking, youth choking another from behind.
New United States Army Air Force Curtiss P-40 aircraft being placed on flight line at Curtiss Aircraft company facility in Buffalo, NY (the Buffalo Municipal Airport) during World War II. A new P-40 aircraft being rolled out of the Curtiss hangar. Employees push several new P-40s. The aircraft are seen parked on the ramp.
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