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Drug store windows broken (339 Lenox Ave)
A story in the Home News is the only evidence connecting Arthur Bennett and James Bright, both Black men twenty-eight years of age arrested for allegedly breaking windows, to the drug store. Bennett and Bright appeared in the Harlem Magistrates Court on March 20 charged with disorderly conduct, with Detective Perretti of the 6th Division recorded in the docket book as having arrested both men. They had allegedly thrown "stores through the window of the store at 339 Lenox Ave.," according to the Home News story on those proceedings. Neither man lived close to the store, with Bennett giving his address as 48 West 119th Street, eight blocks south, and Bright's address recorded as 43 West 133rd Street, five blocks north. Magistrate Renaud convicted both men and sentenced them to one month in the workhouse.
A white owned drug store is recorded at 339 Lenox Avenue in the MCCH business survey taken in the second half of 1935. The Tax Department photograph from sometime between 1939 and 1941 shows a drug store at the address; there is no information available to establish if it is the same business as operated in 1935.