He finds employment in a New York railroad yard where he immediately is befriended by a goodnatured, philosophical Negro lad (Sidney Poitier) and incurs the enmity of a vicious and tough hiring boss.

The former Manhattan co-op apartment of the late actor Sidney Poitier hit the market on Tuesday for $11.5 million.

In 1950, Sidney ... Poitier was born in Miami, and he returned there as a teenager. Sick of Jim Crow laws in the South, Poitier spent the latter half of his adolescence in New York City.