Views of Manhattan, Brooklyn and other areas of New York City. A crowd of men and women near the Young Men Christian Association (YMCA) building. Tourists step inside a sight seeing boat at harbor. Freighters, tugs and ferryboats at the harbor. People seen walking near the buildings and in Central Park in Manhattan. Skyline and water front areas of Manhattan Island, and views of tall buildings and early skyscrapers of New York City . Tourist boats in Hudson River pass under the Brooklyn Bridge.
Launching and christening of USS Santa Fe (CL-60) Cleveland Class light crusier from the Camden, New Jersey yards of New York Shipbuilding, during World War 2. Men, women and U.S. Navy officers and sailors at the harbor during the ceremony, including Santa Fe Mayor Manuel Lujan, and 14 year old Caroline Trevelyan Chavez who receives coaching on how to christen the ship and then smashes a bottle of Santa Fe River water on the bow as the crowd claps and the ship slides down the ways. Ambient sound heard briefly at the christening and afterwards with crowd cheering at different times in the clip. The cruiser slides down the ways enters into the Delaware River. Dignitaries raise their hats to bid goodbye to the ship. The ship turning about in the Delaware River.
Kidnapping case of twenty months old child of aviator Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh. Grand Jury hearing in New York. Colonel Lindbergh arrives at court, protected by several policemen. Crowd outside court building. Policemen and detectives inspect suspect Hauptmann's house in the Bronx, New York. Jury members give their verdict that prime suspect Bruno Richard Hauptmann wrote all kidnap notes. Police official gives his statements. Lindbergh moves out of court, sits in car and drives away. Hauptmann's wife, Anna Schoeffler Hauptmann, seen singing a bedtime song in German to her young child, Manfred Hauptmann (Manfred Richard Hauptmann).
Preparations for departure of victory ship from New York to Great Britain, at the end of World War II. Maritime Commission members meet with the representatives of British Ministry of War Transport, at New York City. Members and officers discuss problems of wartime shipping. Phrase 'Time is Short' written on top of a door behind the chairman.
Pedestrians walk in congested area on New York City sidewalks. Ambulance and policemen arrive to help an injured person among the crowd. Children play on the sidewalks, hang dangerously behind trucks and buses. Boys build and play with soapbox derby style homemade play cars. Children search trashcans on roads. Teenager boys dive ans swim from a moored tug boat or barge into New York waters. A dock worker chases them off the boat and into the water. Person enters a parked Queens Taxi Cab car. View of a parked car backing up and striking the bumper of another parked car. A boy playing stickball swings the bat and hits a ball through a nearby window glass pane, shattering it. and car glasses broken by throwing stones.
German flying boat Dornier Do-X arrives in New York at the end of its journey. Plane glides in the sky over the Hudson River and the George Washington Bridge. Several small planes accompany it during the flight. It circles the Statue of Liberty and lands in the bay. Spectators on several boats observe it. Several large and small boats surround the flying boat in the sea. Skyscrapers of New York near the sea shore.
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