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Abe Mohr's store looted
The only evidence of the looting is the store's appearance in lists of the first twenty white business-owners filing claims against the city for damages published in the New York Sun and New York Amsterdam News. By the time the city Comptroller heard testimony from those making claims, 106 owners had sought damages. Mohr was not among those whose testimony appeared in newspaper stories about that proceeding, nor did he appear in any of the trials to resolve those claims. No one arrested for looting was identified as having stolen goods from the store.
Mohr's claim for $167.50 in losses was one of the smaller claims reported in the press, well below the median claim of $733. The city lost the courts cases, so Mohr likely was awarded some amount of damages, but based on those case it was likely only a small proportion. It is not clear if he was able to remain in business. The MCCH business survey did include a white tailor's store at 2131 7th Avenue in the second half of 1935, which could have been Mohr's store. The Tax Department photograph of the address in 1939-1941 was taken at an angle that does not show what store is there.