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Isreal Riehl's Unclaimed Laundry store looted
Although the store is identified as at 1 West 131st Street, the business is likely the white-owned unclaimed laundry store the MCCH Business survey identified at 3 West 131st Street (the survey includes no businesses at 1 West 131st Street). The building was on the northwest corner of 131st Street and 5th Avenue, photographed as 2140 5th Avenue by the Tax Department. On West 131st Street the next building is number 5, so 3 West 131st Street would be in that building. The awnings visible in the Tax Department photograph on the left side of the building would be over the store.
Jackson is listed among those charged with burglary in the Atlanta World, Afro-American and Norfolk Journal and Gazette, and the New York Evening Journal. He appeared in the Washington Heights Magistrates Court on March 20, charged with petit larceny not burglary. That charge suggests a lack of evidence he had broken in and entered a store to take merchandise. Isreal Riehl was listed as the complainant, so was likely the owner of the store. Magistrate Ford sent him to the Court of Special Sessions and held him on $100 Bail. As Jackson was arrested north of 130th Street and processed by the 32nd Precinct, and sent directly to the Court of Special Sessions, there are no surviving police or legal records of the outcome of his prosecution.
The business seems likely to have survived the disorder, but there is no evidence that definitively links the store visited by investigators compiling the MCCH Business survey to that looted during the disorder.
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- "List of Dead And Injured In Riot In New York City," Norfolk Journal and Guide, March 30, 1935, 18.
- New York Penal Law, § 404, 407: Burglary in third degree.
- "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.
- New York Penal Law, § 1298-1299: Petit Larceny
- "Police Guard Against New Uprising as Mayor Acts to Probe Race Riot," Home News, March 21, 1935, 1.
- Washington Heights Magistrates Court docket book
- "List of Those under Arrest in Harlem Riot and the Charges They Face," New York Evening Journal, March 20, 1935, 3.
- "Harlem: Survey - Census Tract #208 (9)," 1935, Roll 79, Subject Files, Office of the Mayor, Fiorello H. La Guardia records (New York City Municipal Archives).