Headlines in the New York Times. The headline on the front page reads ' The News Of The Week In Review' on launching of the Soviet Sputnik. A picture of a rocket, explorer in the orbit and Soviet Sputnik launched.
Spring turns back to winter with snow in April in New York City. Views of cars covered with snow skidding and pedestrians slide on a slippery day. People walk on the streets of New York in the snow.
Royal Mail Ship Queen Mary at sea in New York. The Statue of Liberty. Airship of the U.S. navy in flight. 14,000 veterans on Queen Mary after the end of World War II. The British ocean liner RMS Queen Mary arrives in New York harbor with thousands of U.S. troops from Europe.
View from train through New York city. 'Kelly Tires' building. View of railway tracks. View of Hippodrome theater in New York. Signs of the theatre read 'Hippodrome' and 'The Big Show'.
New York City celebrates the Armistice ending World War 1. View from above of crowds on 5th avenue, in Manhattan, New York city, gathered at Madison Square, around the Altar of Liberty designed by architect Thomas Hastings, to honor the homecoming troops from the World War. The crowd forms a sea of waving hats, hands, and flags. Scene shifts to George Washington Statue at Federal Hall, Wall Street, which has been draped with American flag and signs reading: "Liberty cannot die." A clergyman stands below the statue and paces back and forth like a cheerleader. Closeup of a bearded Jewish man, wrapped in a Yiddish newspaper announcing the end of the war. He is blowing a horn and has an American flag and a blue and white Jewish flag fastened to his back. Camera pans over young women dressed in costumes as: soldiers, nurses, drum majorettes, the statue of liberty, red cross workers, and Uncle Sam. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
The 1963 Belmont Stakes Derby in the New York Aqueduct Racetrack (110-00 Rockaway Blvd, Jamaica, NY 1142) of Queens, New York. Crowd watches. Horses including Chateaugay, Braulio Baeza, Willie Shoemaker, Bonjour, and Candy Spots run in the Kentucky Derby. Audience cheers them. Chateaugay wins the Belmont Stakes and 100,000$ price money. Candy Spots comes second.
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