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

George Anton assaulted

George Anton, a forty-four-year-old white man, was assaulted by “several unknown colored men” on 7th Avenue between 126th and 127th Streets, according to a hospital admission record. Dr Reed of the Fifth Avenue Hospital attended Anton at 10.45 PM, so the alleged assault likely occurred around 10.15 PM. The location was at the northern end of a cluster of alleged assaults around 7th Avenue and 125th Street early in the disorder, when crowds first began to move beyond 125th Street. Anton lived at the opposite end of Manhattan, 73 Washington Street. There is no information on why he was in Harlem.

The hospital record described Anton's injury as “laceration of right hand, abrasion of head and right knee.” Although more extensive than most of those described in the admission records, they were not serious enough for Anton to be admitted to hospital. After treatment he left for home. Anton does not appear in police or court records, or in newspaper stories or lists, indicating that he did not make a report to police.

While the hospital records did not include information on an individual's race, the language specifying that his alleged attackers were "colored men" and the location of his home indicate that Anton was a white man.

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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).