Trolley Cars, trucks, cars, horse-drawn wagons, and pedestrians on cobblestone street in Brooklyn, New York. People coming out of the Gem movie theater. Snow on ground. Theater marquee lights lit up reading "The Gem Theatre". A horse standing at the curb. Interior of the theater shows pianist in front playing music to accompany silent films. Newsreel of Russian Czar Nicholas II and family including his wife and children on the screen. Czar Nicholas II inspecting troops and seated with officers. Audience watches. Shot zooms in so footage is full screen and theatre patrons no longer visible. Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany on royal stag hunt. Shooting from stand with telescope equipped rifle. Line of hunted and killed stags on the ground following the hunt.
Instant Rehabilitation housing renovation project by Housing and Urban Department in the lower east side of Manhattan, New York City, working on a cluster of adjacent old-law tenements on East 5th Street (nos. 633–637) just south of Tompkins Square. Mayor John Lindsay in a ceremony. Construction workers stand on fire escapes and watch the ceremony. A man gives speech. Public gathered to watch the ceremony. Renovated buildings seen.
Instant Rehabilitation housing renovation and renewal project by Housing and Urban Department in New York City. Prefabricated kitchens and baths are lowered through the roof of old buildings on the lower east side. Paper reading 'Rehabilitation guide' seen. Housing and Urban Department officials discuss the construction project. Renovated building seen.
View of pedestrians and motorists in a street in New York City. The pedestrians exit the 'Department of Marine Aviation' in lower Manhattan.
View of Statue of Liberty in New York City as seen from a moving boat. View of Ellis Island buildings seen from a moving boat. A boat moving in foreground, with lower Manhattan island buildings and skyscrapers seen in background, shrouded in fog. World Trade Center Twin Tower buildings seen, with one tower top still under construction, but nearing completion.
View of a meat distribution warehouse in the New York City meat packing district. Workers offload meat from incoming delivery trucks and load meat slabs into others. One truck has sign painted on it's side reading: "Jos. Kenney & Co. Inc. Purveyers of Fine Meats 401 W 14th St." Men move the meat on hooks suspended from conveyor tracks.
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