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Regal Shoes looted
Vivien lived at 483 Manhattan Avenue, two blocks west of Regal Shoes, near the corner of West 120th Street. He appeared in the Harlem Magistrate's Court on March 20, where Magistrate Renaud held him for the grand jury on bail of $1,000. The Home News reported those proceedings; the remainder of his prosecution is recorded only in legal records and police records. Vivien appeared before the grand jury on April 4, according to his district attorney's case file. They sent him to the Court of Special Sessions rather than indicting him, indicating a lack of the evidence that he had broken into the store required for a charge of burglary. A charge of larceny was likely the alternative, with the items valued well below the $100 required for a felony offense. The judges in that court then convicted Vivien and suspended his sentence, an outcome recorded in the 28th Precinct police blotter.
Regal Shoes continued in business after the disorder. The MCCH business survey from the second half of 1935 included the store, whose address it gave as 2097 7th Avenue rather than 166 West 125th Street, the address used in the reports of the looting. The store also appeared in a building labeled 2901 7th Avenue in the Tax Department photograph taken between 1939 and 1941.
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- "Transcripts of Police Blotter - Precinct 28, March 19 & 20, 1935," MCCH - Juvenile Delinquency - 1935-36, Departmental Correspondence. Box 34, Folder 1 (Roll 171), Records of Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, 1934-1945.
- Harlem Magistrates Court docket book
- "Numerosos Establecimientos Hispanos Apedreados y Saqueados por la Turba," La Prensa, March 21, 1935, 1.
- District Attorney's Closed Case Files, 203990 (1935) (New York City Municipal Archives).
- "Harlem: Survey - Census Tract #222 (27)," 1935, Roll 80, Subject Files, Office of the Mayor, Fiorello H. La Guardia records (New York City Municipal Archives).