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Cleaners & Dyers window broken
This store was located in the middle of a block of Lenox Avenue that saw multiple businesses damaged and looted, although none reported in the five buildings north of 347 Lenox Avenue. On the south side of the Cleaners & Dyers, an unknown store at 345 Lenox Avenue partially visible on the left edge of the the footage in the Pathe Newsreel also had windows broken. To the left of that store, at 343 Lenox Avenue, Sol Weit and Isaac Popiel's grocery store was looted. On the northwest corner of West 127th Street, the drug store at 339 Lenox Avenue had windows broken, and flying glass injured William Brown. Just around the corner on West 127th Street, a candy store was looted. A reporter for the Afro-American who apparently walked up this side of Lenox Avenue from 125th Street to 128th Street, which included the block on which this store was located, counted twenty-two windows broken, in the approximately forty businesses on that stretch of the street.
The white-owned Cleaners & Dyers store is recorded as still at 347 Lenox Avenue in the MCCH business survey taken between June and December 1935. By the time the Tax Department photograph of the address was taken, between 1939 and 1941, the storefront was vacant, with signs of construction work being done.
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- "Harlem: Survey - Census Tracts #223-24 (28)," 1935, Roll 80, Subject Files, Office of the Mayor, Fiorello H. La Guardia records (New York City Municipal Archives).
- "Machine Guns Set Up in New York Streets. False Rumor Causes Death of One, Wounding of 50, and Looting of 300 Stores," Afro-American, March 23, 1935, 1.
- [Newsreel] "Aftermath of 1935 Harlem riot," Pathe Newsreels, 1935, 0:09 (Getty Images).