A police car is parked crosswise in center of snow-covered street. A sign of the New York City Housing Authority at the construction site for the "Alexander Hamilton Houses" in Harlem, New York City (The 21 story buildings were completed in 1965 and are at 2446 Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard , New York, NY). Snow at open area. Several high-rise apartment buildings are seen. Free-standing signs advertise prices for pork chops and frozen foods. Several closed and apparently out of business storefronts are seen. A Cleaner's shop. A sign reads "Manny's Billiards". A restaurant named "Little Jim's" selling “fish and chips” and “chicken and chips”. “Alicia’s” hairstylist shop front. Two children pass by the shop. A hair stylist shop. A sack outside a laundry shop. A religious shop named “Eastern Star” sells hosiery and different types of perfumes such as “Compelling”, “Cleopatra”, “Come to Me”, “Love Perfume” and “Money Perfume”. Religious store also sells a “Lucky Seeing Eye Cross!” and "Learn to see things past." Sign for "Daniel's Billiards". Coca Cola advertisement flanking store sign. Pepsi Cola advertisement also seen in window. View of "Rena's French Dry Cleaners" shop. Sign in window advertises stain removing. Two African American children holding a bottle. They smile and point at something in the distance.
A snow-covered street in Harlem, New York City. A large bell. Children climb railing. Snow covered city. Buildings. People pass by. A marquee reads "Reo Hotel". New Hope Community Church. Fountain Spring Baptist Church at 158 West 126th Street New York, NY. A sign reads"Home cooked food every Sunday". Children swing at playground in a park. View of the Park Avenue Bridge crossing the Harlem River from Manhattan Island to the Bronx.
Nighttime scenes in Harlem, New York. Count Basie's bar at 132nd St. and Seventh Ave. in New York's Harlem. Neon sign at Big Wilt's, an African American nightclub (2294 7th Avenue New York City). Apex Beauty School stands above Big Wilt's. Neon lighted signs and marquees read "Moondog with Ace and the Kings.", The Harlem Moon bar and grill. Signs read "Barbecue" , "Chop Suey" , and "Chow Mein" Jim Moon Chinese restaurant. A sign reads "Join now NAACP Applications available here". Facades of Bermuda Bar and Silver Rail bar. Rates of fish, shrimp and chicken are displayed at the Gilmar Self Service Food Center in Harlem.
Camera pans over name of new "Harlem Boys' Club" and then to inscription on building reading: "The Children's Aid Society of the City of New York." A small African American boy walks along the sidewalk and pauses to look up at the building. The scene is repeated with another take. Closeup of the boy. observers in the background. A girl enters new building, with cornerstone reading: "AD 1940." Several boys and girls of elementary school age enter the building, one at a time. African American children playing on swings in a play ground. A man pushes a small child on a swing. An apartment house directly across the steet from the playground. View across the playground of the swings and houses across the street. A very small boy walking on the playground.
Documentary about geography of New York. Slate indicates New York has the largest bridges in the world. Views of the Brooklyn Bridge. Cargo liners below the bridge and crossing the bridge. The Manhattan Bridge and skyscrapers of Manhattan, New York City behind is visible at a distance. Another bridge over river Hudson, under construction. A man and woman standing on a high observation platform of a skyscraper, looking over at the tower of Woolworth Building, the tallest skyscraper in America.
Exterior view of St Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church at 122-38 West 76th Street in New York City, (it is the modern day address 120 West 76th Street, New York City; the location of the West Side Institutional Synagogue). St. Andrews church turns into a Jewish Synagogue for a day in New York City. The Star of David symbol seen at entrance of church. Interior views of Jewish religious service in progress. Rabbi blows shofar and people are heard singing prayers. Rabbi I. Warsaw introduces Pastor Edward J. Aplin. Rabbi Warsaw thanks Pastor Aplin for offering the church space to the Jewish congregation of the Little Synagogue and Temple of Service, and permitting them to decorate the space with the symbols of a traditional synagogue and use the facility for Yom Kippur.
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