Wednesday, February 24, 2010

And The Walls Came Tumbling Down...

The film on the Gas House District that I posted yesterday was cropped, and the clip ended just as the Stuyvesant Town footage was starting to roll. That started me searching the web again and while I haven't yet located the unedited film, I did find something else. The PBS Television Series The American Experience produced a documentary on Robert Moses titled The World that Moses Built. Turns out that New York's Master Builder had a hand in the development of Stuyvesant Town. As a result, the producers included a brief, but wonderful, bit of footage that is obviously excerpted from another Met Life promotional film for Stuyvesant Town. This footage is also in color and shows the complex as it appeared in the early years of it's existence.


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