Franklin Roosevelt takes office in 1933 promising relief from the Great Depression, and within his first hundred days he creates federal agencies designed to put Americans back to work through public works projects. The film follows how that mandate played out most visibly in New York City, where Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, the son of Italian immigrants, partnered with the patrician Roosevelt to remake the city's landscape. Archival footage and photographs trace the construction of the Triborough Bridge, LaGuardia Airport, new parks, public housing, and other infrastructure built with federal relief money and labor. Historians interviewed for the film explain how these projects functioned as both employment programs and a permanent redefinition of government's role in ordinary life, while people who lived through the era describe what the work and the relief meant to them directly. The episode keeps its focus tight on the Roosevelt-LaGuardia partnership as the mechanism through which New Deal policy became visible, physical change on the ground in one city.