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Frendel's meat market windows broken and looted
Hughes was among the first of those arrested in the disorder to appear in the Harlem Magistrate's Court on March 20. Sent to the Court of Special Sessions by Magistrate Renaud, Hughes was held on $500 bail. There is no evidence of the outcome of his trial. Williams appeared in the Harlem Magistrates Court directly after Hughes, with the same complainant, and Magistrate Renaud also sent him to the Court of Special Sessions, with the same bail. There is also no evidence of the outcome of his trial.
The store continued in business after the disorder. The complaint in the Magistrate's Court was made by Leo Halberg, a white butcher who worked in the store and lived at 1767 Fulton Avenue in the Bronx, who was still employed at the store when he registered for the draft in 1942. He gave the name of his employer as "Frendel Inc." The MCCH business survey records a white-owned "Pork (Meat) Market" at 2360 8th Avenue and a store with signs indicating that it is a meat market is visible in the Tax Department photograph taken between 1939 and 1941. A photograph of the meat market, with a sign reading "Frendel Market," accompanied a New York Amsterdam News story about rationing in Harlem in 1943. By then the store was owned by (Sigmund) Fred Garb, a Jewish refugee from Austria, and his wife Claire, who identified a cousin named "S. Frendl" when they arrived in the United States in 1939. Twice, in 1941 and again in 1943, Fred Garb was convicted of fixing their scales to cheat customers.
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- "1 Dead, 7 Shot, 100 Hurt as Harlem Crowds Riot over Boy, 16, and Hearse," New York Herald Tribune, March 20, 1935, 1.
- Harlem Magistrates Court docket book
- "Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 6/16/1897 - 7/3/1957," Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Record Group 85, National Archives and Records Adminstration (Ancestry.com).
- "Harlem Riot Prisoners and Charges," New York American, March 20, 1935, 4.
- Draft Registration Cards for New York City, 1940-1947, Records of the Selective Service System, Record Group 147, National Archives and Records Administration (Ancestry.com).
- "Harlem: Survey - Census Tracts #223-24 (28)," 1935, Roll 80, Subject Files, Office of the Mayor, Fiorello H. La Guardia records (New York City Municipal Archives).
- "Ration Deals Hard Blow to Harlem," New York Amstersdam News, April 17, 1943, 1.
- "Nabs Butcher for Cheating Harlemites," New York Amsterdam News, December 11, 1943, 1.
- "Short-Weights Dealers Held," New York Amsterdam News, December 20, 1941, 2.