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Isreal Riehl's Unclaimed Laundry store looted
Although the store was identified as at 1 West 131st Street, the business was 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 appeared in the Washington Heights Magistrates Court on March 20, charged with petit larceny. 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 Jackson 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.