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New York City USA 1959 stock footage and images

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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.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675028699
USS Independence (CV-62) in New York City's East River during its initial sea trials

U.S. Navy's new aircraft carrier USS Independence (CV-62) starts her first sea trial down New York's East River. Tugboat workers help the aircraft carrier out of the Brooklyn Navy Yard and down the river. The carrier clears the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges by tilting its hinged mast.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1959, February 2
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040895
WPA laborers work at various development programs in New York City, United States.

Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects in New York City during the Great Depression. Aerial view of New York City as a plane flies by and clouds part to show Manhattan island below. Buildings and skyscrapers of New York City as seen from river and harbor views, with some ships and tugboats seen. Trucks on roads of Governor's Island at tip of Manhattan. An older home seen under renovation and reconstruction. View of the Brooklyn Navy Yard with WPA workers busy building and improving new roads and shops and warehouses near the docks. A bulkhead construction project is shown at Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, to reclaim land from the waters of the Bay. The work includes construction of a new Boulevard and sanitary and sewer system improvements. View of the front entrance of the Beaux Arts style Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House on Bowling Green at the tip of Manhattan. Pedestrians and WPA workers are seen in front of the building. WPA laborers on an unidentified Manhattan street (with elevated railway running in background) are busy removing old street car rail lines from the streets, in sections, and loading them into truck beds to haul away. Large public swimming pool and bath house construction projects are shown, influenced by city planner and avid swimmer Robert Moses (scene possibly shows McCarren Park pool - note archway seen under construction). WPA workers are seen building the new East River Drive, including highways, walks, and flanking parks. Construction workers seen building the roadway, with the Williamsburg Bridge in the background. A model of the project is shown with the new drive from Grand Street to 14th Street. Camera pans down from the Empire State Building to show the roof of the New York Public Library teeming with WPA workers as they remove the old corroded copper roof and replace it with a new metal roof. View of busy Manhattan streets below the workers, including a street car passing by.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1936
Duration: 3 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062811
Documentary about geography, fine harbors and long waterfront of New York, being the reason for its commercial supremacy.

Documentary about the geography of New York City. Slate indicates New York is the largest city in America. Its commercial supremacy is due to its fine harbor. A geographic map of New York, showing areas as Brooklyn, Manhattan, Lower Bay, Bronx and New Jersey. The bays and rivers in New York are shown. View of the Statue of Liberty. The waterfront of New York City as seen from a ship on the water. High rise buildings and early skyscrapers along the waterfront of Manhattan Island. Miles of docks at the New York City waterfront for ocean shipping.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1925
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036354
52nd Annual Millrose Games at Madison Square Garden in New York City

52nd Annual Millrose Games at Madison Square Garden in New York. In Track and Field competition Paul Winder tops Olympic champion Bobby Morrow in 60 yard event. Don Bragg pole-vaults to a new indoor mark for a garden record. John Thomas of Boston sets record for indoor mark of seven meters in High Jump.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1959, February 2
Duration: 2 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040900
Miss Mississippi Lynda Lee Mead wins the 1960 Miss America Contest in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

1960 Miss America Contest at the Boardwalk Hall (2301 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States) in Atlantic City, New Jersey. A large crowd of spectators gather to see the contest. The contestants pose in evening gowns and bathing suits. A panel of judges watch their performances. The winner, Miss Mississippi Lynda Lee Mead, is awarded the crown. Miss America 1959 Mary Ann Mobley crowns Lynda Lee Mead. Lynda Lee Mead waves at the crowd after winning the crown.

Location: Atlantic City New Jersey USA
Date: 1959, September 14
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055807
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