Eddie Albert hosts this beautifully filmed WCBS-TV tour through Manhattan streets in 1961. The spirit of New York is captured from dawn to midnight in this television special. The New York Times called it an..."enterprising imaginative bit of TV." New Yorkers, like Sol Auerbach, an East Side delicatessen waiter, and the secret of happiness. Meet Staten Island Ferry Captain Sweeten, window washers at dizzy heights, apartments on the lower east side, and who lives there, zoologist Dr. Richard Van Gelder from the American Museum of Natural History, Architect William Platt and wife in stately Gramercy Park and Turtle Bay. The young, the old, and why New York is where they want to be. Central Park, Glamorous Fifth Avenue, a seamstress describes the art of making dresses, fashion, Macy's and Klein's. Waiters take their stations at the Waldorf-Astoria. Washington Square, Greenwich Village, and artists. Broadway, sections of Midtown, and the people. Edward Duffy at his newsstand, never lonely with "millions of people" around him. Eddie Albert expertly takes you on a tour of a New York not seen by the tourists, about the underbelly of a a big city. The people, the places...all in 1961. You gotta love it! Mastered from 16mm b-w film.
