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Harlem in Disorder: A Spatial History of How Racial Violence Changed in 1935

Menswear store windows broken

The menswear store at 112 Lenox Avenue was one of the businesses with broken windows identified by a reporter for La Prensa who walked along Lenox Avenue around and north of West 116th Street, and along West 116th Street and West 125th Street, the day after the disorder. The front windows of the store were broken, the reporter noted. The story identified another menswear store a block south on Lenox Avenue that also had its windows broken but no goods taken, as well as a branch of the Wohlmuth Co. clothing store two blocks north. A group of Black men and women reportedly smashed a window of the San Antonio Market at 71 West 116th Street, just east of Lenox Avenue, and took around $10 of groceries, after midnight. The windows in the menswear store may have been broken about that time, perhaps by the same group. Additional businesses in the area also likely had broken windows as the La Prensa reporter concluded his list by noting he had not included others as they had only suffered minor damage ("y otras mas que por ser los danos ocasionados relativamente pequeños no creimus de interes catalogar entre los establecimientos ya mencionados").

The MCCH business survey recorded the Hispanic-owned Axton Clothes Company at that address in the second half of 1935. No other sources mentioned this store, and no one arrested during the disorder was identified as breaking the store's windows.

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