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

In civil court on March 4, 1936

Four months elapsed after Judge Shalleck upheld the verdict awarding damages to William Feinstein before any further damage claims went to trial, in the Supreme Court, not the Municipal Court, on March 4, 1936. Seven cases were decided at that trial, with the jury awarding a total of $1200 in damages. Those details were reported in stories in New York Times, New York Post, New York Herald Tribune, Daily News, and New York Amsterdam News, and beyond the city, in the Chicago Tribune, and California Eagle. The total was mistakenly reported as $2000 in a brief story in the Pittsburgh Courier, while a similarly brief Afro-American story did not mention a total.

The largest award, to Irving Stetkin, did appear in those stories, and in the New York Times, New York Post, New York Herald Tribune and New York Amsterdam News. That Stetkin's claim involved damage to two stores was mentioned in all those stories other than the Pittsburgh Courier. The jury awarded him $550 according to the NYT, NYHT, $700 according to the NYP and AN, and $500 according to the PC. Stetkin's award was contrasted with the smallest award in some of those stories, which was to Michael D'Agostino, of $70 for two stores according to the NYT and NYHT, and of $25 for one store according to NYP and AN.

proportion of award = Stetkin and total [refer to earlier stories on their claims]

They were all represented by Barney Rosenstein, the lawyer at the center of newspaper stories about filing claims in April and July 1935.

City's arguments = NB compare what is riot argument of city with Shalleck's discussion in Feinstein - test case = could refer to these arguments, or trial inthis court

+ police testimony

+ 15 pending cases, $1 million

= stories refer to Feinstein and Rosenberg verdicts but not to Shalleck's decision on motion

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