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Arrow Sales store windows broken
In the first hours of the disorder, crowds around Kress' store on West 125th Street moved down 8th Avenue to 124th Street, to the rear of the store. However, windows in the Arrow Sales do not seem to have been broken then. Smashing glass was reported in the area around 8:00 PM and then again around 9:30 PM, and groups of people began moving south on 8th Avenue around 10:00 PM. The establishment of a police perimeter around the corners of 8th Avenue and West 125th Street beginning around 7:00 PM appears to have prevented merchandise from being taken from the store, even if it could not protect store windows. Only the Danbury Hat store north of 125th Street was reported as being looted.
No other sources mention Arrow Sales, and no one arrested during the disorder is identified as breaking the business' windows. The MCCH business survey does include the white-owned business, which it described as an "Independent 5 & 10c store" at this address. Advertisements announcing the opening of the store appear in the New York Age on November 10 and November 17, 1934, the latter noting it had a staff of four Black women and two Black men. The Tax Department photograph shows a one-story building constructed after 1935.