[A little bit of old New York in the shadow of the new.]

[Aerial View of Hard Luck Town, a shantytown.]

[Pretzel stand in the Jewish section of the East Side.]

[Flatiron Building.]

[St. Patrick's Cathedral on Easter Sunday.]

[Crowds in Pennsylvania Station.]

[Pulitzer or World Building.]

Jazz clubs on 52nd Street.]

[Digging in on biggest job.]

[Park Avenue and 46th Street.]

[Spectators at sidewalk art show.]

[Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia being presented with a autographed album of Beethoven's "Eroica" by Bruno Walter of the New York Philharmonic.]

Manhattan at Night. [Aerial view of Midtown at night.]

[Broadway and 42nd Street, Times Square.]

[Bill Smith, the "mayor" of Hard Luck Town.]

[5th Avenue and 49th Street.]

[New York Public Library.]

[Hard Luck Town- East 9th Street and the East River.]

[Grand Central Terminal -- deserted due to strike.]

[New York City Telephone Exchange.]