A busy street in New York. People walk on the street. Traffic of cars, trucks and buses on roads. People on top of a double decker bus. Parked car drives out into the street.
Exteriors of the suburban Cross County Center shopping center in Yonkers, New York in the late 1950s. Camera pans across the Grand Union grocery store advertising its gravity-fed "Food -O-Mat" shelving system. There is also an automat in front of the store for a number of items. Close up view of an automat automatic vending machine. Man pulls a box of cornflakes from the machine after inserting coins. View of grocery store puchases from the Grand Union supermarket in large bins on a conveyor belt, as they roll to bag boys outside the store, who lift the bags into the cars of waiting customers. A car pulls up to a drive in window at the Peoples Trust Bank and the driver deposits a large bag of money into the teller drawer. Elevated view of the Cross County Center open air suburban shopping center and many 1950s cars parked in the parking lots. Signs seen at shopping center include "Lerner Shops" and "Gimbels". Many cars on the nearby roads and parking lots.
Unemployed men in Newark, New Jersey during the Great Depression. Disturbance at railroad and dockyard being brought under control by policemen on horseback. Train and ships in background. A sign reads 'No men wanted'. Men sleep on park benches. A man holds a sign reading 'Unemployed'. Men sleep in doorways Sidewalk soup kitchen. View of shacks and an order by the Department of Health declaring them unfit for human habitation and ordering them vacated at once. Order is signed by Charles V. Craster, M,D, D.P.H., Health Officer.
Views of Times Square, a major intersection in Manhattan, New York City of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd Street to West 47th Streets. Sign on the post 'W 42nd Street, Time Square, Broadway'. 42nd Street and Broadway can be seen. Pedestrians and vehicular traffic at 42nd Street and 7th Avenue.
Views of buildings and skyscrapers on Ellis Island, just outside New York City. Exterior of pilot house, pilot at wheel. View of the detention building for incoming immigrants. Deckhand tying up boat at slip.
Nine P-26 Peashooter aircraft in a step down flight formation over clouds. Interior of a transport type aircraft, Major General Frank Andrews, a Colonel and a Brigadier General look at map on table. Seven P-26 Peashooter aircraft in a step-up flight formation, New York City can be seen in background.
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