'VISITING ALLEY' MADE AVAILABLE TO 'COURTING' BACHELOR GIRLS IN NEW YORK HOTEL
New York City (JFK+50) On August 23, 1923, the Associated Press reports a 'visiting alley' or hallway boarded by ten small curtained-alcoves "where working bachelor girl occupants may receive...friends in privacy" will be part of a new hotel here in New York to be opened this October.
The unnamed apartment-hotel, to be located on West 34th Street*, will have thirteen stories and 400 rooms.
Each hotel room will cost between $8.50 and $12.00 a week and will include two meals a day. The hotel will have a ballroom on the first floor, and a large library on the second.
*West 34th Street, 2 miles in length, runs the width of Manhattan Island from West Side Highway to FDR Drive.
SOURCE
"Courting Places Provided in New Hotel for Girls," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., August 23, 1923, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
