WEBVTT Kind: captions; Language: en 00:00:03.001 --> 00:00:08.001 Everybody dreams of traveling. All of us can dream, but only a few get the chance 00:00:08.001 --> 00:00:14.001 to travel to faraway places. Yet, anyone can get a taste of traveling around the 00:00:14.001 --> 00:00:20.000 world in the one place where the world's nation sits side by side, New York City. 00:00:47.001 --> 00:00:53.001 Baghdad on the subway. That's what O. Henry called New York, the town where east 00:00:53.001 --> 00:00:58.001 meets west amidst the babble of a hundred tongues. New York is where the Latin 00:00:58.001 --> 00:01:02.000 rumba shares a jukebox with a beer barrel polka. 00:01:03.001 --> 00:01:07.001 Manhattan's Lower East Side is a living example of America's melting pot in 00:01:07.001 --> 00:01:18.001 action and has become a debate between merchant and customer still remains an 00:01:18.001 --> 00:01:23.000 art. Here, individuals appraise the quality of the goods and test each other's 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:30.001 wit and willpower. Even the young learn quickly that it's each man for himself in 00:01:30.001 --> 00:01:35.001 a world where panties and pickles live side by side. 00:01:42.001 --> 00:01:45.000 But even this old world marketplace of all nations has 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:47.000 bowed to Yankee flavor and rhythm. 00:01:48.001 --> 00:01:53.001 Hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry. The world is so full of a number of 00:01:53.001 --> 00:01:55.001 things and we don't want to miss any. 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:14.000 The Spanish equivalent for an ice cream cone is videagua. For a few pennies, 00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:18.001 the street corner vendor shaves the ice and from a rainbow of flavors, your own 00:02:18.001 --> 00:02:21.000 choice colors the frosty cone. 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:30.001 Here's a cooling treat that satisfies the sweet tooth coming to youngsters the 00:02:30.001 --> 00:02:36.001 world over. The smile foreshadows the lights to come. Yet sugar and spice and 00:02:36.001 --> 00:02:40.001 everything nice is just a small part of New York life for young Puerto Ricanos. 00:02:41.001 --> 00:02:45.001 Some earn extra money selling shopping bags or with a shoe shine box on a busy 00:02:45.001 --> 00:02:52.001 corner. When life becomes hard and 00:02:52.001 --> 00:02:59.000 problems are puzzling, one is willing to accept some power. 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:04.000 Polly, the fortune teller, relies on chance rather than reason. 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:12.000 Song and music too help to carry the burden of the day and musicians performing 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:15.001 in the public square have delighted people for thousands of years. 00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:25.001 Man cannot live by bread alone and the soul is nourished by art 00:03:25.001 --> 00:03:27.000 as well as spiritual inspiration. 00:03:30.001 --> 00:03:37.001 England raises her heroes on 00:03:37.001 --> 00:03:42.000 the playing fields of Eden, but the sand lot for New York Central Park does 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:44.000 nicely for Americans of all races. 00:03:46.001 --> 00:03:51.000 Even the World Series cannot excel the spirit of this game between two 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:52.001 Puerto Rican neighborhood teens. 00:03:57.000 --> 00:04:03.000 It won't be long before this youngster will be right in there banning him out. 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:07.001 And who knows, the greats, the DiMaggios, Robinsons, Campanellas and Williams 00:04:07.001 --> 00:04:09.001 got their start just like this. 00:04:18.001 --> 00:04:23.000 From bull fights to sand lot baseball, exciting sports are favored around the 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:25.000 world by people of Spanish descent. 00:04:29.000 --> 00:04:36.000 In another part of town, the game of bocce, an outdoor bowling game imported from 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:38.001 Italy, still finds favor with the old-timers. 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:40.001 Two teams bowl in competition. 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:51.000 Points are scored by the number of balls closest to the small ball or palino. 00:04:51.001 --> 00:04:54.001 Here there is no reliance on an umpire's quick eye. 00:04:55.000 --> 00:04:58.001 Inches are carefully measured, but even the ruler cannot prevent discussion. 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:09.001 Bocce means to knock an opponent's ball out of scoring 00:05:09.001 --> 00:05:11.001 position and owe how they try. 00:05:21.000 --> 00:05:25.000 Body English comes naturally to veteran players. You must try to control the ball 00:05:25.000 --> 00:05:27.000 as long as it is in motion. 00:05:41.001 --> 00:05:46.000 A close decision can lead to as much argument as a rhubarb in a baseball game. 00:05:46.001 --> 00:05:50.000 This could very well be Rome or Naples, but it's still New York. 00:05:59.001 --> 00:06:03.001 Though in this country, bocce will hardly outlive the old-timers. 00:06:06.001 --> 00:06:10.001 Younger generations find their common meeting ground in a 00:06:10.001 --> 00:06:12.000 red-hot game of stickball. 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:29.000 For foods with foreign flavors, this is a wonderful town for marketing. 00:06:31.001 --> 00:06:35.001 New York's many national origins have enriched the city with a world of variety 00:06:35.001 --> 00:06:38.001 in foods, and among the finest are the specialties of Italy. 00:06:43.001 --> 00:06:47.001 Mozzarella, a cheese product, is a must in the preparation of mouth-watering 00:06:47.001 --> 00:06:52.001 monoclety, a Neapolitan dish not easily duplicated by unknowing hands. 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:06.001 Macaroni is first stuffed with ricotta, something like cottage 00:07:06.001 --> 00:07:08.001 cheese, and then with mozzarella. 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:19.001 Then, it is saturated with a well-simmer tomato sauce whose recipe has been 00:07:19.001 --> 00:07:21.001 handed down from generation to generation. 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:29.001 Finally, topped with a sharp parmigiano cheese. 00:07:33.000 --> 00:07:37.000 The dish is placed in the oven for an hour to let all the flavors mingle. 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:45.001 And then, with Papa's approval, bon appetito. 00:07:57.001 --> 00:08:02.001 A little bit of Bavaria clings to New York's Upper East Side. Here is Yorkville's 00:08:02.001 --> 00:08:05.000 brow house with its singers and its gimmertlichkeit. 00:08:13.000 --> 00:08:18.000 The Schüplatler, or slap dance, is traditional, and so is the beer drinker's 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:20.000 toast, alzo broset meine lieben. 00:08:27.000 --> 00:08:33.001 The dancing is full of humor, and just like this beer stein, it's lusty 00:08:33.001 --> 00:08:35.001 and full of the European flavor. 00:08:46.001 --> 00:08:52.000 And now, the spirit of the Schnitzelwank, a musical audience participation game. 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:01.001 It doesn't make much sense, but everyone has a lot of fun. 00:09:20.001 --> 00:09:25.000 With all the different backgrounds that make up New York, there's one day in the 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:29.000 year when everybody is Irish. St. Patrick's Day, of course. 00:09:29.001 --> 00:09:33.001 It's a proud day for New York, when its millions turn out for the wern of the 00:09:33.001 --> 00:09:37.000 green, to the tune of the jigs, and the sound of the bagpipes. 00:09:41.000 --> 00:09:44.000 Officials of church and state review the marchers from the steps of St. 00:09:44.001 --> 00:09:46.000 Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue. 00:09:51.000 --> 00:09:55.001 But the real dignitaries of the day are the Kellys and the Ryans, the O 00:09:55.001 --> 00:09:57.000 'Connells, and the O'Briens. 00:10:02.001 --> 00:10:08.000 It is their past and their future which all New Yorkers celebrate today 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:09.001 as friends and neighbors. 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:30.001 Chinatown calls up memories of subtle foods. Aromas of oriental 00:10:30.001 --> 00:10:32.001 delicacies linger in the streets. 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:39.001 Newsstands which carry the community's five Chinese language dailies help to give 00:10:39.001 --> 00:10:41.000 these streets a foreign appearance. 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:50.000 But Johnny Lum, like any other American kid, has his own reading habits. 00:10:55.000 --> 00:10:58.000 And this could be any street in New York. 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:12.000 Beautiful oriental handicrafts attract thousands of travelers who in many ways 00:11:12.000 --> 00:11:14.000 are the most amusing sights in Chinatown. 00:11:25.001 --> 00:11:30.000 The really big event in this community's life comes with a celebration of the 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:34.001 Chinese New Year, when Eastern customs and Eastern symbols turn this section of 00:11:34.001 --> 00:11:36.001 New York into a corner of the Far East. 00:12:07.001 --> 00:12:11.001 Firecrackers are an old Chinese invention. Their explosions are joined with the 00:12:11.001 --> 00:12:13.001 sound of drums and clashing cymbals. 00:12:23.000 --> 00:12:28.000 All the noise serves to encourage the dragon as he tries to drive out the evil 00:12:28.000 --> 00:12:31.001 spirits of the old year to clear the way for the new. 00:12:36.001 --> 00:12:42.001 All this is New York City, where you can make a trip around the world in the 00:12:42.001 --> 00:12:45.000 shadows of the skyscrapers.