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Jack Stern's store looted
The only evidence of the looting was the store's appearance in a list of the first twenty white business owners suing the city for damages based on the failure of police to protect their stores published in the New York Sun and New York Amsterdam News. By the time the city comptroller heard testimony from those bringing suit, 106 owners had sought damages. Stern was not among those whose testimony appeared in newspaper stories about that process, nor did he appear in any of the trials to resolve claims. No one among those arrested for looting was identified as taking goods from this store.
The claim for $308.72 in losses was one of the smaller claims reported in the press, well below the median claim of $733. The city lost the court cases, so Stern likely was awarded some amount of damages, but based on those cases, it was only a small proportion. It is not clear if he was able to remain in business. The MCCH business survey did include a white-owned food market at 348 Lenox Avenue in the second half of 1935, suggesting that D'Agostino may have reopened after the disorder, but not another business that could have been operated by Stern. The Tax Department photograph of the address in 1939–1941 also showed a market, with a beauty parlor and a business that cannot be identified.