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Mediaville Liquor store looted
A reporter for the paper 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 were west of the liquor store on Lenox Avenue and on West 116th Street between Lenox and 7th Avenues and most had broken windows without reported looting. La Prensa provided the only evidence of the looting of the liquor store and those other attacks as both the white and Black press and the MCCH gave no attention to events in the Hispanic section of Harlem.
The Mediaville Liquor Store did not appear in the MCCH Business survey, nor did any other business located on that corner. However the store was visible in the Tax Department photograph taken between 1939 and 1941 which showed that it continued to operate after the disorder.