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Unknown store window broken
This store was located in the middle of a block of Lenox Avenue that saw multiple businesses damaged and looted, although none reported in the five buildings north of 347 Lenox Avenue other than the Cleaners & Dyers on the right hand side of this store. To the left of the store, on the other side of the entrance to upper floors, Sol Weit and Isaac Popiel's grocery store at 343 Lenox Avenue was looted. Further south, on the corner of West 127th Street, the drug store at 339 Lenox Avenue had windows broken, and flying glass injured William Brown. Just around the corner on West 127th Street, a candy store was looted. A reporter for the Afro-American who apparently walked up this side of Lenox Avenue from 125th Street to 128th Street, which included the block on which this store was located, counted twenty-two windows broken, in the approximately forty businesses on that stretch of the street.
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- "Machine Guns Set Up in New York Streets. False Rumor Causes Death of One, Wounding of 50, and Looting of 300 Stores," Afro-American, March 23, 1935, 1.
- [Newsreel] "Aftermath of 1935 Harlem riot," Pathe Newsreels, 1935, 0:09 (Getty Images).
- Sol Weit's grocery store, 343 Lenox Avenue, and 345 Lenox Avenue, c. 1939-1941.