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Mediaville Liquor store looted
A reporter for the paper appears to have walked around the Puerto Rican areas of West 116th and Lenox Avenue the day after the disorder looking for damaged businesses. Most of those identified in the story are west of the liquor store, on Lenox Avenue and West 116th Street between Lenox and 7th Avenues, and most had broken windows without reported looting. As with most of those attacks, La Prensa provides the only evidence of the looting of the liquor store.
The Mediaville Liquor Store does not appear in the MCCH Business survey, nor does any other business located on that corner, but is visible in the Tax Department photograph taken between 1939 and 1941, indicating that it continued to operate after the disorder.