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Harlem in Disorder: A Spatial History of How Racial Violence Changed in 1935

Alice Gordon assaulted

Alice Gordon was treated for lacerations of her face at the Knickerbocker Hospital on Convent Ave and West 131st St. at 11.45pm on March 19. The thirty-four year old white woman reported that she had been "assaulted by several unknown colored men at 117th St. and 7th Ave." There as another assault nearby, on William Burkhard on West 118th Street between 7th Avenue and Lenox Ave, around the same time, and broken windows and looting over on Lenox Avenue and on West 116th St that suggest crowds moving through the area. The attack on Patricia O'Rourke as she traveled by car on 7th Avenue also occurred nearby.

After being treated Gordon left for home, 72 Sound Rd., Rye, 20 miles north of where she had been assaulted. There is no mention of why she was in Harlem.

The hospital admission records is the only source that mentions Gordon.

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"Hospital Admissions, 19-20 March 1935," Subject Files, Box 167, Folder 5 (Roll 76), Records of Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, 1934-1945 (New York City Municipal Archives).