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San Antonio market looted
A reporter for the paper visited damaged businesses in the Puerto Rican areas of West 116th and Lenox Avenue the day after the disorder. Most of those identified in the story are west of the market, on Lenox Avenue and West 116th Street between Lenox and 7th Avenues, and most had broken windows without reported looting. The Mediaville Liquor store is the only damaged business located east of the market, at the other end of the block of West 116th Street. As with most of those attacks, La Prensa provides the only evidence of the looting of the market.
The San Antonio market likely continued to operate after the disorder, as a Hispanic-owned grocery store located at 71 West 116th Street is included in the MCCH Business survey. The nature of the business at that location when the Tax Department photograph was taken between 1939 and 1941 is not visible.