2100-2106 7th Avenue, c. 1939-1941.
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United Cigar store windows broken
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The United Cigar store on the northwest corner of West 125th Street and 7th Avenue had its windows broken during the disorder. All the businesses to the west of the store on West 125th Street in that building had windows broken; the Minks Haberdashery, Young's Hats, Savon Clothes store, General Stationery & Supplies store and the Willow Cafeteria. Only Young's Hats was reported looted. Businesses on the other corners had windows broken during the disorder; Regal Shoes on the southeast corner was also reported looted, while Herbert's Blue Diamond Jewelry store and the branch of the Chock Full O'Nuts restaurant chain on the southwest corner only had windows broken. Police trying to clear people from West 125th Street around Kress' store to the west had pushed the crowd toward this intersection, creating large crowds, some of whom broke away and threw objects at the windows of stores on 7th Avenue. After 9:00 PM, emergency trucks were stationed at the intersection, as part of the perimeter Inspector McAuliffe ordered police to establish around the main business blocks of the street, from 8th to Lenox Avenues, from 124th to 126th Streets, according to stories in the New York Times, Daily Mirror, New York Herald Tribune, and Pittsburgh Courier. The presence of such large numbers of police does appear to have resulted in only isolated looting of stores on the corners even if it came too late to protect store windows. With attacks on stores beginning with businesses closer to the Kress store, attacks on this store likely began around 9:00 PM, with more windows broken around 10:00 PM, and further damage possibly done around 10:30 PM.
Across 7th Avenue from the United Cigar store, police officers armed with rifles stood guard in front of Herbert's Blue Diamond Jewelry store after the display windows were smashed. Patrolmen may also have guarded the cigar store; while there is no mention of their presence in newspaper stories, the Daily News published a photograph of an officer with a rifle guarding a store on West 125th and 7th Avenue with stock visible in the window that fits a cigar store but not any of the businesses on the other corners. One of the captions refers to the business as a drug store, but none of the business identified on the corners of the intersection are drug stores. Damage to the store window is visible to the left of the patrolman, two holes in the glass, in the original version of the image in Getty Images. Only a small section of the window is visible, so there may be more damage.
The New York Herald Tribune, Daily Mirror, and the New York American included the cigar store among the seven businesses on West 125th Street between 8th Avenue and 7th Avenue that they identified as having windows broken, without giving the store's address. The store is also one of the businesses in a list of those with broken windows made by a reporter for La Prensa who walked along West 116th Street, up Lenox Avenue, and then west on West 125th Street on the day after the disorder. They gave the store's address as 2100 7th Avenue. The Tax department photograph shows that store entrance cut across the corner, making it likely the address on 7th Avenue was correct.
No one arrested during the disorder is identified as breaking the business' windows. The MCCH business survey taken between June and December 1935 did record the white-owned store at 2100 7th Avenue, and it is visible in the Tax Department photograph taken between 1939 and 1941. -
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Shoe store windows broken
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A shoe store at 2100 7th Avenue was one of the businesses in a list of those with broken windows made by a reporter for La Prensa who walked along West 116th Street, Lenox Avenue, and West 125th Street on the day after the disorder. After walking north on Lenox Avenue from West 116th Street, the reporter turned left on West 125th Street, walking west toward Kress' store where the disorder originated. The shoe store was in the building on the corner of West 125th Street and 7th Avenue, next to the United Cigar store on the corner. While all the stores in the building facing West 125th Street also had their windows broken, the shoe store was the only business in the building on 7th Avenue reported as damaged.
Businesses on the other corners had windows broken during the disorder. Regal Shoes on the southeast corner was also reported looted, while Herbert's Blue Diamond Jewelry store and the branch of the Chock Full O'Nuts restaurant chain on the southwest corner only had windows broken. Police moving people on West 125th Street away from the Kress' store to the west had pushed the crowd toward this intersection. The large crowd that resulted included some groups who moved away and threw objects at the windows of stores on 7th Avenue. After 9:00 PM, emergency trucks were stationed at the intersection, as part of the perimeter Inspector McAuliffe ordered police to establish around the main business blocks of the street, from 8th to Lenox Avenues, from 124th to 126th Streets, according to stories in the New York Times, Daily Mirror, New York Herald Tribune, and Pittsburgh Courier. The presence of such large numbers of police did appear to have resulted in only isolated looting of stores on the corners even if it came too late to protect store windows. The first windows in the shoe store windows were likely broken around 8:45 PM, when windows were reported broken in Jack Sherloff's jewelry store a few doors to the north on the same side of 7th Avenue and merchandise taken despite Sherloff jumping into the display and throwing merchandise back into the store in an effort to keep it out of the hands of those on the street. Further damage would have been done from around 9:00 PM to at least 10:30 PM.
No other sources mentioned the shoe store, and no one arrested during the disorder was identified as breaking the business' windows. It did appear as a white-owned business in the MCCH business survey taken between June and December 1935, but was not visible in the Tax Department photograph.