Instant rehabilitation of housing in New York City. A demolition crew take out floors, walls and windows of a East side tenement in Manhattan. Instant rehabilitation is a joint city, state, federal private project. Officials give keys to habitants of the instant apartments. A woman inspects her new apartment.
Paper print. Turn of 20th century documentary motion picture. Tunnel workers in New York, United States. A cart filled with stones is hoisted and carried from the tunnel. Workers and engineers at the construction site of the Pennsylvania Railroad Tunnel being built between New York and Long Island. Workers enter a lift and descend to the tunnel level. When lift comes up again, they remove a cart filled with material dug from tunnel. The dig workers realize they are being filmed and begin to act up for the camera. Lift comes up bringing night shift workers from tunnel, who leave the construction site. Day shift workers and a superintendent and a foreman arrive.
Arrival of SS Excambion passenger liner (one of the "4 Aces" of American Export LIne) to New York from Lisbon, Portugal, during World War 2. Refugees and immigrants (many Jews seeking refuge from Nazi German persecution in World War 2) at rail of SS Excambion with New York City skyline and Statue of Liberty in the background. Refugees at rail. Refugees leave ship at pier.
American Architect Richard Buckminster Fuller shows a model of his Dymaxion house design, in Ritz-Carlton Hotel (42 E 46th St, New York, NY 10017, USA), New York. Mr. Fuller explains that the house is suspended from a single stainless-steel mast, and the whole weighs only four tons. The guests listen and look at the model. A woman looks at the model house. A man removes the roof of the model to expose the interior of the house.
Area inhabited by Germans in New York City, United States. German newspapers at a news stand or book stall. The exterior of a bookstore showing German signs. People pass in the foreground. Theatre marquee sign in German say “ZWEI LUSTIGE ABENTEUER. H RUEHMANN H KNOTECK. EXTRA PANAY BOMBING EXTRA” (“TWO FUN ADVENTURES. H RUEHMANN H KNOTECK. EXTRA PANAY BOMBING EXTRA “ IN English) at the 86th St Garden Theatre, and “DIE UFA FILMOPERETTE DER BETTELSTUDENT F KAMPERS IDA WUEST” at the Europe Theatre. A person buys a ticket from a movie theater box office. Movie theater admission price in German “Erwachsene 20 Kinder 15” (“Adults 20 Children 15” in English). German sign boards in front of shops, including at address 242 for the Yorkville Camera Exchange and the Yorkville Clothes Shop in Upper Manhattan.
Syrian and Armenian stores and shops along Washington Street, New York City, United States in late 1939. "Little Syria" area between Battery Park and Rector Street. Exterior of Syrian stores and restaurant. Sign reads 'Delicious Syrian Luncheon'. Banner advertising the 1939 New York Worlds Fair hangs in front of the restaurant. Traffic and pedestrians along street. Cars parked along side of street. Exterior of "Markarian Bros" Armenian wholesale grocers. Sign for "The well known Son of the Sheik Syrian Cooking" restaurant.
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