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New York City USA 1939 stock footage and images

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New York State Governor Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) swims in pool; Mayor Jimmy Walker arriving in New York Court to answer corruption allegations

New York State Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) swims with family and friends in swimming pool, installed in an old greenhouse in the New York State Executive Mansion in Albany, New York (138 Eagle St, Albany, NY 12202, United States). Franklin Roosevelt laughs and passes a ball while swimming. View of New York State Supreme Court Building in Manhattan, New York City (60 Centre Street New York, NY, United States). With his entourage, Franklin D. Roosevelt climbs the stair to enter the New York State Supreme Court Building. Flamboyant New York City Mayor Jimmy Walker enters the New York State Supreme Court Building, to answer allegations of corruption before the investigative Seabury Commission of Judge Samuel Seabury. Courtroom full of people watching the investigation into corruption within the administration of Mayor Jimmy Walker.

Date: 1930
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079077
Vendors of New York City, lower east side street markets, businesses and New York Stock Exchange stock market activity

German propaganda film released during World War 2 shows scenes in New York City during the Great Depression in the 1930s. Shows a woman being honored by a group of men in New York as she receives an award. A crowded shopping and market area of New York City, with street vendors and laundry service. An African American shoe shine man wearing a top hat finishes shining a customer's shoes, bows, and then performs a dance on the sidewalk. A busy shopping and market area on Orchard Street in the lower east side of Manahattan, with many stores including Guiradi's Antiques Sol Moscot Optical at address 119, Cohen's Optical at 117 Orchard Street, and others. Street area filled with carts and market activity in a densely populated area of New York City. Workers inside a busy garment factory in New York. Hebrew signs in front of Jewish stores and businesses in New York. View of New York Stock Exchange floor with scenes of frenzied buying and selling as buyers and sellers yell their orders in a trading pit. Hands of a man counting a pile of cash bills. View of Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia talking to a man, a group of well dressed business men, and LaGuardia addressing a gathering of people. Clip is from an anti Jewish propaganda segment of a newsreel produced by Nazi Germany during World War 2.

Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675028699
Taxi cabs and cars stalled in heavy traffic, New York City.

View of a street in New York City. Vehicular traffic in the Manhattan street. Truck stuck in traffic near New York Garment Center. Several pedestrians on the side of the street. Taxi cabs and cars stalled in heavy traffic. View of taximeters in cabs. Fares impatient in the heavy traffic. A man looks through roof of a cab. Passengers get impatient in the traffic. A man gets out of the taxicab and pays the driver.

Date: 1939
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053708
Pedestrians walk in congested area on sidewalks, children play unsafe and dangerous games near the city streets of New York

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.

Date: 1939
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036991
People read the news on WW2 at Times Square, New York City

People on the streets of Manhattan, New York City. Crowds throng Times Square in Midtown Manhattan. Buildings along the sides of street. 'Nazi planes raid Warsaw' flashing on signage from a building. People view the news on German leader Adolf Hitler and World War II in Europe before America's entry in the war. People buying newspapers.

Date: 1939, September 4
Duration: 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046128
African American children playing in a pool outside Harlem River Houses in New York City, United States.

Harlem River Houses in New York City, United States. An African American woman pulls a stroller along street. New residential apartment buildings in the background. Sign on new housing buildings reads 'Harlem River Houses' and name of President Franklin Roosevelt is also seen on sign. African American children playing in a fountain of the neighborhood apartment community.

Date: 1939, July
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074864