1 00:00:17,13 --> 00:00:17,26 It has 2 00:00:24,61 --> 00:00:29,08 magic Manhattan like a cluster of sin fired mountain peaks. 3 00:00:29,13 --> 00:00:34,55 It's manmade mansions of industry rise out of the bay from the battery to the prom. 4 00:00:35,05 --> 00:00:40,78 It's brightly lighted avenues are a byword it's waterfront afraid from here on this 5 00:00:40,78 --> 00:00:45,96 golden Island is the greatest honor a kaleidoscope of all those who were down to 6 00:00:45,96 --> 00:00:46,54 the sea in ships 7 00:00:48,01 --> 00:00:52,27 and no less than ten thousand fifty here come into New York Harbor from voyages of 8 00:00:52,27 --> 00:00:55,44 the seventy to rest exchange their cargoes. 9 00:00:55,75 --> 00:01:00,88 And then quietly slip away from their restless wandering it's more than eight 10 00:01:00,88 --> 00:01:03,02 hundred boards in all the waterfront facilities. 11 00:01:03,28 --> 00:01:07,80 If put end to end would stretch almost one third the distance across the United 12 00:01:07,80 --> 00:01:08,35 States 13 00:01:09,10 --> 00:01:13,10 and more than two hundred thousand persons are employed daily to handle the traffic 14 00:01:13,10 --> 00:01:19,77 of the harbor the tug approximately seven hundred a number are an institution under 15 00:01:19,77 --> 00:01:24,42 themselves appearing like puny little water bugs hitting at break this thing are 16 00:01:24,42 --> 00:01:30,04 they nevertheless analyzing the bottom of the deep with amazingly. 17 00:01:39,52 --> 00:01:43,93 Innumerable other types of seagoing craft in the harbor from the most modern of it 18 00:01:43,93 --> 00:01:47,16 too thick to arrest for mass the tune is reminiscent of 19 00:01:47,16 --> 00:01:49,73 when jamming days of the almost forgotten time 20 00:01:57,03 --> 00:01:59,74 on the Lower East River water from is a seaman's church. 21 00:02:00,00 --> 00:02:04,00 Institute which Paul more than a hundred years has befriended all men of the scene 22 00:02:09,12 --> 00:02:14,17 thousands of bodges carry thousands of products about the harbor an occasional line 23 00:02:14,17 --> 00:02:18,09 great with freshly washed clothing is often the only outward indication 24 00:02:18,09 --> 00:02:21,89 that many of these barges are the permanent homes of those who tend them. 25 00:02:23,33 --> 00:02:25,62 This little girl has bought a doll and carriage up on that 26 00:02:26,35 --> 00:02:31,14 and all their young lady. How are you today. All right. Madeleine good. 27 00:02:32,27 --> 00:02:35,40 She and her little brother were both born on this particular bar 28 00:02:36,17 --> 00:02:37,64 and it's the only playground they know 29 00:02:43,11 --> 00:02:47,27 sunrise over the Lower East River always this close is long lines of sturdy little 30 00:02:47,27 --> 00:02:48,96 schooner tied to the horrors 31 00:02:48,96 --> 00:02:53,62 that the four supposed to be here at the famous hundred year old Fulton Fish Market 32 00:02:53,62 --> 00:02:55,66 boats come here we are to clean from near 33 00:02:55,66 --> 00:03:00,11 and far to unload their catch within the shadow of the towering skyscrapers of 34 00:03:00,11 --> 00:03:00,42 lower Manhattan. 35 00:03:02,93 --> 00:03:06,35 Some of these the human have caught their cargo as far away as the coast of Nova 36 00:03:06,35 --> 00:03:06,83 Scotia 37 00:03:07,55 --> 00:03:12,95 or a spa south of stormy Cape Hatteras on the coast of North Carolina the Fulton 38 00:03:12,95 --> 00:03:14,92 Fish Market of which this is 39 00:03:14,92 --> 00:03:18,63 but one here is the largest wholesale fish market in the world. 40 00:03:19,73 --> 00:03:24,40 Each year it handles approximately five hundred million pounds of seafood of more 41 00:03:24,40 --> 00:03:25,91 than one hundred different varieties. 42 00:03:31,82 --> 00:03:36,02 Nothing is more characteristic of the New York waterfront them these bulldog like 43 00:03:36,02 --> 00:03:36,68 the couple 44 00:03:36,68 --> 00:03:41,17 that pull off push floating cargo often one hundred times their own size. 45 00:03:42,42 --> 00:03:45,71 Let's go aboard one of us a lot of these river for a mid stream give 46 00:03:49,68 --> 00:03:54,40 There's a famous Brooklyn Bridge for more than half a century. 47 00:03:54,60 --> 00:03:59,60 It has proudly spend the broad East River and watch the ever growing skyscrapers. 48 00:04:00,00 --> 00:04:01,98 First of New York's great bridges. 49 00:04:02,10 --> 00:04:07,11 It has fourteen thousand miles of cable continues to defy the ravages of wear 50 00:04:07,11 --> 00:04:10,94 and time and it still retains its place as one of the principals 51 00:04:10,94 --> 00:04:12,18 or affairs to Manhattan 52 00:04:23,95 --> 00:04:27,83 just above the Brooklyn Bridge is Manhattan Bridge considerably greater in length 53 00:04:28,58 --> 00:04:28,83 and beyond 54 00:04:28,83 --> 00:04:35,79 that Williamsburg Bridge the waterfront is a place of conference where the elegant 55 00:04:35,79 --> 00:04:36,99 sit beside the ugly. 56 00:04:37,88 --> 00:04:44,52 Graceful white Yahoo I look down upon by the smoky back to me is of industry here 57 00:04:44,52 --> 00:04:49,11 and there are extravagant dwellings such as pretensions where the house was landing 58 00:04:49,11 --> 00:04:53,08 float a specially designed for the race the speed boat of its affluent residence 59 00:04:53,08 --> 00:04:59,15 and exuding opulence and prosperity to the very top of LA to cower and then. 60 00:05:01,00 --> 00:05:05,41 There are the jungles of the less fortunate whose only homes are made of discarded 61 00:05:05,41 --> 00:05:08,91 boards and bits of tin collected in the back alleys of the same atop 62 00:05:09,77 --> 00:05:12,69 and whose household funny things come from ash cans 63 00:05:12,69 --> 00:05:16,15 and public refuse the dead ends of Manhattan. 64 00:05:18,14 --> 00:05:22,34 They wander dejectedly about their shacks on this decrepit spot of the waterfront 65 00:05:23,14 --> 00:05:26,14 like an holy ghost of men who have failed in every opportunity 66 00:05:27,08 --> 00:05:29,38 that life on the land of opportunity can afford 67 00:05:37,99 --> 00:05:39,38 some of the back water bands 68 00:05:39,38 --> 00:05:43,62 and little used clothes become the graves of harbor derelict barges tugs 69 00:05:43,62 --> 00:05:46,51 and other craft which have completed their life of usefulness 70 00:05:46,51 --> 00:05:49,60 and have been abandoned to sink in rough. 71 00:05:49,61 --> 00:05:52,59 Even the out of water ends of some of these dams 72 00:05:52,59 --> 00:05:57,08 and deliberated harbor wrecks are converted into homes for Manhattan Beach comber. 73 00:06:02,71 --> 00:06:06,47 In the less repellent little days are occasionally to be found somewhat more 74 00:06:06,47 --> 00:06:11,24 pretentious improvised living quarters need homes built on deserted barges. 75 00:06:11,50 --> 00:06:15,56 Lifted above the mire and murky water with clean window curtains 76 00:06:15,56 --> 00:06:16,50 and front porches 77 00:06:17,22 --> 00:06:20,82 that look out across beach two sunken hulks of various types sizes 78 00:06:20,82 --> 00:06:24,20 and stages of wreckage warehouses and sprawling factories 79 00:06:24,20 --> 00:06:26,66 and the homes of other waterfront squatters 80 00:06:31,56 --> 00:06:34,95 Manhattan is a city of bridges the over water roadways 81 00:06:34,95 --> 00:06:38,94 that connect the metropolis with surrounding points total more than twice the 82 00:06:38,94 --> 00:06:40,12 entire length of the island. 83 00:06:40,21 --> 00:06:44,59 Some are mechanical swinging all if thing while others span the sky. 84 00:06:44,61 --> 00:06:46,94 Well above the tallest smokestack all message. 85 00:06:48,04 --> 00:06:52,51 This is one of the less lofty spans of the great Triborough Bridge a mere segment 86 00:06:52,51 --> 00:06:55,79 that straddles the Harlem River high enough for tugs 87 00:06:55,79 --> 00:07:00,79 and other small craft to go underneath also capable of lifting like an elevator to 88 00:07:00,79 --> 00:07:02,39 permit the passing of large vessels. 89 00:07:06,65 --> 00:07:10,02 Here is one of the automobile approaches on the same Harlem River crossing of the 90 00:07:10,02 --> 00:07:13,17 Triborough Bridge the newest of all those serving Manhattan. 91 00:07:14,04 --> 00:07:15,65 It is seventeen and a half miles in length 92 00:07:16,43 --> 00:07:19,30 and its three arms extend to the boroughs of Queens and the Bronx. 93 00:07:20,22 --> 00:07:24,31 There are also fourteen miles of highway approaches and the concrete alone 94 00:07:24,31 --> 00:07:28,23 that were used in the construction of the bridge proper would pave appalling 95 00:07:28,23 --> 00:07:35,17 highway from new we off to Philadelphia the most imposing 96 00:07:35,17 --> 00:07:40,17 part of this great engineering achievement is the suspension pot over the East 97 00:07:40,17 --> 00:07:45,11 River at Hellgate near the point where it spreads out into Long Island Sound the 98 00:07:45,11 --> 00:07:50,42 Spanish sufficiently high to permit all vessels to pass underneath the on can be 99 00:07:50,42 --> 00:07:54,64 seen the famous Hell Gate Bridge used exclusively for railway traffic. 100 00:07:56,04 --> 00:07:59,95 This gives a better idea of the great length of Hell Gate Bridge looking to our. 101 00:08:00,00 --> 00:08:05,12 The main span from a point. Approximately in the middle of the entire structure. 102 00:08:07,48 --> 00:08:11,27 Probably the most imposing of all Manhattan's Bridges is the George Washington 103 00:08:12,29 --> 00:08:14,58 across the expensive and historic Hudson. 104 00:08:15,46 --> 00:08:20,77 It's many traffic arches curving a prism silver framework things of beauty its 105 00:08:20,77 --> 00:08:23,36 towers rise twice the height of any of the other bridges 106 00:08:24,16 --> 00:08:25,92 and this massive structure of steel 107 00:08:25,92 --> 00:08:30,62 and concrete reaches gracefully almost three quarters of a mile in a single span 108 00:08:32,66 --> 00:08:37,10 skirting a goodly part of the western shore line of the island is famous Riverside 109 00:08:37,10 --> 00:08:40,86 Drive which looks out across well hidden away tracks under the Hudson. 110 00:08:41,33 --> 00:08:44,44 Where the battleships of many navies have anchored on parade. 111 00:08:44,88 --> 00:08:45,80 And where now 112 00:08:45,80 --> 00:08:51,03 and then even today an occasional antiquated square regular can be seen tied to all 113 00:08:52,82 --> 00:08:56,37 the industries of Manhattan's magic waterfront on many sided 114 00:08:56,37 --> 00:09:01,51 and never ending the falling shadows of evening bring no silencing to its towering 115 00:09:01,51 --> 00:09:03,97 skeletons of steel and fast dropping 116 00:09:03,97 --> 00:09:07,62 and rising clamshell bucket unloading barges of coal sand 117 00:09:07,62 --> 00:09:12,49 and gravel are its great pride are capable of lifting great ship so 118 00:09:12,49 --> 00:09:19,43 that men may work under them arms Friskies from 119 00:09:19,44 --> 00:09:24,18 sunrise to sunset and through the bleak drab hours of darkness round 120 00:09:24,19 --> 00:09:27,08 and round the ever varying waterfront. From Hell. 121 00:09:27,10 --> 00:09:30,42 Gates lofty bridges to the battery that looks out toward the open ocean. 122 00:09:30,77 --> 00:09:33,01 There are sites at which to model 123 00:09:33,01 --> 00:09:39,25 and sight one may best avoid nature has indeed been kind to the little island on 124 00:09:39,25 --> 00:09:41,01 which the American Metropolis is due. 125 00:09:41,89 --> 00:09:46,19 But were it not for the development of Maritime Transportation which has made it a 126 00:09:46,19 --> 00:09:48,22 mecca of ships and merchants of the sea. 127 00:09:49,11 --> 00:09:53,97 Its great harbor might be only a vacant it spans of inland waters at the edge of 128 00:09:53,97 --> 00:09:58,35 the mighty Atlantic. No age. No century in history. 129 00:09:58,45 --> 00:10:03,36 No place on any continent as known such amongst this melting pot of human 130 00:10:03,36 --> 00:10:10,72 and industrial accomplishment as this clustered about the Manhattan water from.