This page was created by Anonymous.
Chain Grocery store looted
Taylor, White and Payne appeared in the Washington Heights Magistrates Court on March 20, charged with burglary. No complainant was listed. When the three men returned to the Magistrates Court on March 26, the charge against them was reduced from burglary to disorderly conduct. Magistrate Ford convicted all three men, and sentenced White and Payne each to five months and twenty-nine days in the Workhouse, and suspended Taylor's sentence. There is no information on why Taylor received a different sentence.
If the looted store was the A & P store at 510 Lenox Avenue, it continued in business after the disorder, appearing in both the MCCH Business survey in the second half of 1935 and the Tax Department photograph taken between 1939 and 1941.
This page has tags:
This page references:
- "Police Guard Against New Uprising as Mayor Acts to Probe Race Riot," Home News, March 21, 1935, 1.
- Washington Heights Magistrates Court docket book
- "Harlem: Survey - Census Tract #210-212 (20)," 1935, Roll 80, Subject Files, Office of the Mayor, Fiorello H. La Guardia records (New York City Municipal Archives).