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Sam Lefkowtiz's store windows broken
Sam Lefkowitz was was identified as the storeowner in the Harlem Magistrates Court docket book, although Officer Doran was the complainant in the affidavit.
When Brown appeared in the Harlem Magistrates Court on March 20, he was charged with both malicious mischief, for allegedly breaking the window, and inciting a riot, for his alleged call for the group to break other windows. Magistrate Renaud held Brown for the grand jury on the riot charge, and sent him to the Court of Special Sessions to be tried on the charge of malicious mischief. When Brown was brought before the grand jury, they sent him to the Court of Special Sessions to be tried for the misdemeanor form of the offense of riot. The outcome of Brown's two trials in the Court of Special Sessions are unknown.
Lefkowitz was one of the twenty white businessowners identified as suing the city for damages based on the failure of police to protect their stores in a story in the New York Sun. He claimed losses of $1610.64, one of just over a third of the owners who claimed more than $1000. The city lost the test cases for this litigation so Lefkowitz likely received some damages, but perhaps not enough to remain in business. The MCCH business survey does not include a business at 2147 7th Avenue in the second half of 1935. The Tax Department photograph is taken from too far away to identify the businesses at the address in 1939-1941.