Washington Square Park, Greenwich/west Village, Manhattan, New York City. Shot of apartment-lined street with parked cars as woman in a long coat walks down the street. Montage of shots of the exteriors and courtyards of the brick buildings that includes shots of fences, steeple roofs, marble bust statues, flat roofs, decorative windows, and ornate facades. The narrator talks about the history of artists and poets living in these buildings. Shot of man in a suit and long coat smoking a cigarette, standing in front of a storefront. CU of legs in rolled up jeans and sneakers. The man in the coat watches them walk by with a look of curiosity. And bearded man in a coat and hat looks out towards the street. Shots of people in “traditional dress”: a man and woman walking along the sidewalk, a woman painting the outside of a building, a cameraman at his tripod and camera. CU of a guitar case on the propped up nearby. WS of people walking past a street vendor selling paintings. The artists hangs a painting on the display. Some people stop to look at the paintings. The narrator talks about traditional ways of life and artistic lifestyles being at odds with one another. A horse drawn carriage carrying flowers. A cat suns on stone steps of an apartment building. Dogs on leashes walk next to their owners who wear pencil skirts and heels. A kitten pokes it head out from a balcony. A woman in a skirt suit walks along the street with cat on her shoulder.