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Manny Zipp's grocery store looted
The three stories all reported his name differently: the New York Sun called him "Manny Zipp," the New York Post reported his name as "Manning Zipp," and the World-Telegram "Manny Vitt." The name used here, Manny Zipp, combines the most frequently repeated elements of those variations.
Zipp sought $721 of damages. He was one of two businessmen suing the city who listed 383 Lenox Avenue as the location of their stores. The New York Daily News published a photograph of the clean-up on the section of Lenox Avenue containing his grocery store the morning after the disorder that shows the other business, the Savoy Food Market, at 383 Lenox Avenue. To its left is a grocery store that must be Zipp's business, notwithstanding that the address appears to be 381 Lenox Avenue. The store windows are missing, and both the display and the shelves within the store are empty. Some goods appear to have been thrown on to the street; a man is clearing debris with a shovel. The two businesses either side of Zipp's store also have no windows and empty displays and shelves. Both Anthony Vitable, who owned the Savoy Food Market, and Jacob Saloway, who owned the cigar store on the corner, also sued the city for damages.
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- "106 Suits Filed Under Mob Law in Harlem Riot," World-Telegram, July 23, 1935 [clipping]
- "Claim $38,000 Riot Damages," New York Sun, April 23, 1935 [clipping]
- "Harlem Riots to Cost Dearly," New York Sun, July 23, 1935 [clipping]
- "Cops not on Job, Say Harlem Suits," New York Post, July 23, 1935 [clipping]