1936-1951' captures daily life of adults and children in New York City Children are seen playing, sailors walking through Times Square and lightning flying across the Empire State Building ...

By the late 1940s, New York had become the world's ... Al Smith and Emma Lazarus — the city of blocks, neighborhoods and crowded streets that, however shabby and rundown in appearance, were ...

Despite miserable conditions on March 17, 1940, the parade went on as usual ... from Cardinal Dougherty High School down the New York City streets during the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in 1965.