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Harlem in Disorder: A Spatial History of How Racial Violence Changed in 1935

William Brown injured

William Brown, a twenty-year-old man of unknown race was "cut by flying glass" at Lenox Avenue and West 127th Street, according to hospital admission records. Dr. Payne attended Brown at Harlem Hospital at 2:30 AM, so he was likely injured sometime after 2:00 AM. Multiple people reported being hit by glass an hour earlier when violence on Lenox Avenue intensified. Brown could have been close to stores that were attacked or have participated in those attacks. Brown lived some distance to the south of where he was injured, at 26 West 118th Street, an area of mixed Black and Puerto Rican residences.



The hospital record and lists of the injured in the New York Post and New York Evening Journal agreed that Brown suffered lacerations to his leg, although they disagreed on which leg. The hospital records said the injury was to the left leg, the newspapers to the right leg. Brown was admitted to the hospital, indicating a relatively severe injury. The others injured by flying glass during the disorder treated at Harlem Hospital were sent home. The hospital record did not include information about an individual's race; although newspapers sometimes included that information, in Brown's case they did not.
 

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