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Philip Jaross' Tailor's shop looted
Davis is among those named as charged with petit larceny in the list published in the Atlanta World, Afro-American and Norfolk Journal and Gazette (he is not in the list published in the New York Evening Journal). When Davis appeared in court on March 20, Magistrate Ford held him for the Court of Special Sessions, on bail of $100. There is no record of the outcome of that prosecution.
The investigator for the MCCH Business survey noted that Jaross' Merchant Tailors was a "Store operated by two Jewish men. Carry a cheap line of tailor made clothes. Been here 3 1/2 years." Its presence in the survey indicates that it continued to operate after the disorder, and was still doing so when the Tax Department photographed the building between 1939 and 1941.
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- "List of Dead And Injured In Riot In New York City," Norfolk Journal and Guide, March 30, 1935, 18.
- "Says Economic Conditions in Harlem Are Bad," Atlanta World, March 27, 1935, 1, 2.
- "Harlem Riot Damage is Figured at Half Million," Afro-American, March 30, 1935, 1, 2.
- Washington Heights Magistrates Court docket book
- "Harlem: Survey - Census Tract #228 (33)," 1935, Roll 81, Subject Files, Office of the Mayor, Fiorello H. La Guardia records (New York City Municipal Archives).