"When the bricks started flying, I right away shut off my lights," explained Greenwald. "That way I don't make such a good target and I go out and save a lot of merchandise. Pretty soon, however, so much stuff comes flying in even without the lights that I give up and think only of saving myself. Even in the store I wasn't safe, entirely, look!"

He held up a ten-pound slab of paving. One bullseye from this fellow and right away Mrs. Greenwald is a widow. Anyway, I lose about twenty suiting lengths of woolens, uninsured, and believe me never did goods leave my store so quick! No waiting to pick patterns either!"

Although Greenwald does not give the time that attacks on his store started, it was likely around the same time as objects were being thrown at the windows of Jack Sherloff's jewelry store directly across 7th Avenue, 8.45 PM, and Herbert's Blue Diamond Jewelry store down the block on the corner of West 125th Street, 8.30 PM.  The stores would still have been open at that time, giving owners and staff the opportunity to protect their stock. Greenwald mentions a period of time when objects were being thrown at the store before anyone took goods from the store, but it appears briefer than general accounts that suggest an interval between attacks on businesses and looting. However, he did have time to "save a lot of merchandise," which given he had no insurance, would have been crucial to Greenwald being able to remain in business. Although the MCCH business survey did not include the store, a Tailors store is visible at the address in the tax photo from 1939.

The newspaper story is the only source to mention the looting of Greenwald's store. Of the four stores mentioned in the New York Daily News, only one appears in any other source. Police made no arrests in this area until around 9.45 PM, when Leroy Brown was arrested two block to the north for urging people to follow his example and break store windows, followed around 10.10 PM, by Officer Irwin Young's arrest of Leroy Gillard across the street on the same block for looting. Until then, few, if any, police appear to have then been on 7th Avenue north of West 125th Street; certainly not enough to both protect stores and make arrests, so events like the attack on Greenwald's store are not part of the legal record.