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Jacob Saloway's store looted
The New York Daily News published a photograph of the clean-up on the section of Lenox Avenue containing Saloway's store the morning after the disorder. Saloway's store can be glimpsed on the far left of the image, with signs visible indicating it sold cigars. The windows appear to be missing and the displays emptied of stock. The angle does not show the interior of the store. The two businesses to the right of the store, in the foreground of the picture also have no windows and empty displays and shelves. Both Anthony Vitable, who owned the Savoy Food Market, and Manny Zipp, who owned the grocery store, also sued the city for damages.
Saloway sued for $676 in losses, one of the larger claims. The city lost the test cases, so Saloway likely was awarded some amount of damages, but based on those case it was likely only a small proportion. Whatever the award, Saloway appears to have been able to remain in business. The MCCH business survey includes a white-owned stationary store (a type of store that sold cigars) at 381 Lenox Avenue in the second half of 1935. A business also appears in the Tax Department photograph from 1939-1941, but the signage is not visible.