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Drug store windows broken (339 Lenox Ave)
Attacks on the drug store windows likely began around 11:00 PM, when crowds first appeared on Lenox Avenue. Windows were broken in William Gindin's shoe store a few buildings south of the drug store around that time, with police arriving around 11:20 PM and arresting Julian Rogers for alleging doing some of that damage and attempting to take merchandise. Given the arrival of police nearby, the arrests of Bennett and Bright likely occurred around 11:30 PM. Late in the disorder, police arrested men for looting Frank De Thomas' candy store next to the drug store on West 127th Street and Sol Weit and Isaac Popiel's grocery store two buildings north on Lenox Avenue. Many other stores in the surrounding blocks of Lenox Avenue had windows broken and goods taken. Police likely arrested Bennett and Bright around 11:30 PM.
A story in the Home News was the only evidence that connected Arthur Bennett and James Bright to the drug store. Bennett and Bright appeared in the Harlem Magistrates Court on March 20 charged with disorderly conduct. Detective Perretti of the 6th Division was 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. Bennett gave his address as 48 West 119th Street, eight blocks south, and Bright's address was 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 was 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 showed a drug store at the address; there was no information available to establish if it was the same business as operated there in 1935.