New Yorker Boys Club Honoured
- Title of event
- New Yorker Boys Club Honoured
- Type of event
- Dance
- Address of event
- New Yorker Boys Club Honoured Happened Entirely at 160, W 146th St
- Report on event
- New Yorker Boys Club Honoured Sole event referenced by Hotel Honours New Yorker Boys Club
- Start date / time
- January 27, 1935
- Start (general time of day)
- Night (Any Time)
- Description
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Ralph Ritz (the president of the hotel) hosted a dance for more than sixty Negro employees at the Hotel New Yorker and more than four hundred of their friends. The dance was held to celebrate the first anniversary of Ritz's employment of "Negro help", and the creation of The New Yorker boys, an organisation "devoted to their social and athletic interest".