Why is New York City also known as the big apple?!
Question: Is it as the rest of the country says, they are rotten to the core?
Answers: Is it as the rest of the country says, they are rotten to the core?
I will spill the beans ... we grab the first touristo we find, tie 'em up to a fire hydrant, and place an apple on their head.
We then take turns shooting an arrow into the apple.
Sometimes, we hit the target, other times not. But, there's always more tourists to have fun with.
i used to know the answer but i forgot. and no, they are not rotten.
Pretty much.
Noo
ewww .lol
I dunno y but it not dat!
NY is fit! xx
because new york never sleeps and its known for its buildings and yellow taxis... and its a big city..iw ould love to go there.
its cos its full of worms
New York state is the second largest producer of apples after Washington State. I guess it's just called that due to this fact. Where I live ( in Upstate, NY) is called the "core of Apple Country".
because its full of maggots
Because it has many apples.....................................
Why Is New York City Called "The Big Apple"?
"When and how did New York City come to be called "The Big
Apple'?"
This is by far the most frequently asked question—and the
most hotly debated—to reach our New York History Hotline.
There are actually several answers (nothing about New York
City is simple, after all). All are explained below, with the last
word going, appropriately enough, to SNYCH’s own Joe Zito,
one of this burg’s finest purveyors of high-quality urban history.
A veteran both of New York City’s inimitable press corps and its
police department, Joe—happily for us—is able to provide
authoritative first-hand testimony on this topic. Read on!
Various accounts have traced the “Big Apple” expression to
Depression-Era sidewalk apple vendors, a Harlem night
club, and a popular 1930s dance known as the “Big Apple.”
One fanciful version even links the name with a notorious
19th-century procuress!
In fact, it was the jazz musicians of the 1930s and ‘40s who put
the phrase into more or less general circulation. If a jazzman
circa 1940 told you he had a gig in the “Big Apple,” you knew
he had an engagement to play in the most coveted venue of all,
Manhattan, where the audience was the biggest, hippest, and
most appreciative in the country.
The older generation of jazzmen specifically credit Fletcher
Henderson, one of the greatest of the early Big Band leaders
and arrangers, with popularizing it, but such things are probably
impossible to document. Be that as it may, the ultimate source
actually was not the jazz world, but the racetrack.
As Damon Runyon (among many others) cheerfully pointed out,
New York in those days offered a betting man a lot of places to
go broke. There were no fewer than four major tracks nearby,
and it required no fewer than three racing journals to cover
such a lively scene—The Daily Racing Form (which still
survives on newsstands today) and The Running Horse and
The New York Morning Telegraph (which do not)—and the
ultimate credit for marrying New York to its durable catchphrase
goes to columnist John J. FitzGerald, who wrote for the
Telegraph for over 20 years.
Joe Zito, who joined the paper as a young man some 70-plus
years ago, recently reminisced about Jack FitzGerald and his
times.
In FitzGerald’s honor (and due largely to the strenuous efforts
of attorney-etymologist Barry Popick, who, like the columnist,
had migrated to NYC from upstate New York) a street sign
reading “Big Apple Corner” was installed at Broadway and
West 54th Street in 1997, near the hotel where FitzGerald died
in poverty in 1963—although a location near the old Telegraph
office might arguably have been a happier spot for it.
Despite its turf-related origins, by the 1930s and ’40s, the
phrase had become firmly linked to the city’s jazz scene. “Big
Apple” was the name both of a popular night club at West 135th
Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem and a jitterbug-style
group dance that originated in the South, became a huge
phenomenon at Harlem’s great Savoy Ballroom and rapidly
spread across the country. (Neat cultural footnote: the great
African-American cinema pioneer Oscar Micheaux liked to
use the Big Apple as a venue for occasional screenings of his
latest feature film or documentary.)
A film short called The Big Apple came out in 1938, with an all-
Black cast featuring Herbert “Whitey” White’s Lindy Hoppers,
Harlem’s top ballroom dancers in the Swing Era. In a book
published the same year, bandleader Cab Calloway used the
phrase "Big Apple" to mean "the big town, the main stem,
Harlem." Anyone who loved the city would have readily agreed
with Jack FitzGerald: “There's only one Big Apple. That's New
York."
The term had grown stale and was in fact generally forgotten by
the 1970s. Then Charles Gillett, head of the New York
Convention & Visitors Bureau, got the idea of reviving it.
The agency was desperately trying to attract tourists to the
town Mayor John Lindsay had dubbed “Fun City,” but which
had become better-known for its blackouts, strikes, street crime
and occasional riots. What could be a more wholesome symbol
of renewal than a plump red apple?
The city's industrial-strength “I ? NY” campaign was launched
toward the end of the Lindsay administration in 1971, complete
with a cheerful Big Apple logo in innumerable forms (lapel pins,
buttons, bumper stickers, refrigerator magnets, shopping bags,
ashtrays, ties, tie tacks, “Big Apple” T-shirts, etc.).
Apparently Gillett was on to something, because at this writing,
over 35 years later, the campaign he launched—it won him a
Tourism Achievement award in 1994, by the way—is still going
strong.
The "Big Apple" is a nickname or moniker for New York City used by New Yorkers. Its popularity since the 1970s is due to a promotional campaign by the New York Convention and Visitor's Bureau. Its earlier origins are less clear.
One explanation cited by the New-York Historical Society and others is that it was first popularized by John Fitz Gerald, who first used it in his horse racing column in the New York Morning Telegraph in 1921, then further explaining its origins in his February 18, 1924 column. Fitz Gerald credited African-American stable-hands working at horseracing tracks in New Orleans: "The Big Apple. The dream of every lad that ever threw a leg over a thoroughbred and the goal of all horsemen. There's only one Big Apple. That's New York.''
Two dusky stable hands were leading a pair of thoroughbred around the "cooling rings" of adjoining stables at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans and engaging in desultory conversation.
"Where y'all goin' from here?" queried one.
"From here we're headin' for The Big Apple", proudly replied the other.
"Well, you'd better fatten up them skinners or all you'll get from the apple will be the core", was the quick rejoinder.
So many worms in it?
Actually, this site has the answer for you...
http://www.salwen.com/apple.html
'Big Apple' = 'Big Money'
The phrase "The Big Apple" referring to New York City was first used in a 1909 book, The Wayfarer in New York edited by Edward S. Martin. In a metaphor explaining the sentiment in the Midwest that the city receives more than a fair share of the nation's wealth, he explains: " 'New York [was] merely one of the fruits of that great tree whose roots go down in the Mississippi Valley, and whose branches spread from one ocean to the other [But] the big apple [New York] gets a disproportionate share of the national sap.'
(Irving Lewis Allen, City in Slang [Oxford University Press, 1995], p. 62)
'Big Apple' = 'Big Time'
"The Big Apple" took on a different connotation when it was made popular in the 1920s by the New York Morning Telegraph sports writer John J. FitzGerald. He heard it used by African-American stable hands at the racetrack in New Orleans when referring to New York's racing scene, which they considered the "big time." FitzGerald liked the phrase so much he titled his racing column "Around the Big Apple." In the introduction to his column from the February 18, 1924 issue FitzGerald writes: "The Big Apple. The dream of every lad that ever threw a leg over a thoroughbred and the goal of all horsemen. There's only one Big Apple. That's New York."
The phrase was most widely used by jazz musicians during the 1930s and 40s. Again it was used as a metaphor for achieving success. Playing New York, in particular the theaters of Harlem and on Broadway, was the ultimate aspiration. When playing away from home, they were out in the branches ("the sticks") but when they were in New York they were playing "The Big Apple."
The phrase fell out of favour during the 50s and 60s but was revived in the 1970s by the New York Convention and Visitor's Bureau's campaign to attract tourists to the city. Using a red apple as their symbol, they promoted New York as the Big Apple, and it is now an internationally known nickname.
In 1997, with the help of Big Apple advocate Barry Popik, the City Council acknowledged John J. FitzGerald's contribution to New York City lore by naming the southwest corner of W. 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan, the corner where FitzGerald lived from 1934 to 1963, "Big Apple Corner." A plaque was placed on the building by Historic Landmarks Preservation Center to commemorate him.
Apples for sale
Some other rumor has it that the "Big Apple" is so named because during the depression, many former financiers would travel from their suburban cottages in full suits in order to sell apples on the streets of New York. The rumour goes that several well-to-do families had to make ends meet by selling apples and the charade became known to many as the "Big Apple" scam of New York. Since apples had always been a big part of the New York economy the name simply stuck and was eventually promoted by local government. (Ed: This is Tony's favourite answer!)
All these explanations probably confused me more rather than answer my queries over why New York City is known as "The Big Apple"! Nevertheless, now I definitely have a lot to talk about whenever anyone asks me about The Big Apple.
I gave you a star.That is a good question.Maybe the answer is it is suppose to be holsum like apple pie and ice cream....not.....don't have a good answer,come on people let's find out why.
There are a lot of explanantions but I can't put my finger on exactly 1!
The "Big Apple" is a nickname or moniker for New York City used by New Yorkers. Its popularity since the 1970s is due to a promotional campaign by the New York Convention and Visitor's Bureau. Its earlier origins are less clear.
New York State is one of, if not THE, largest apple producing state in the country. Back in the early 1800s (I believe) a state-wide agricultural promotion distributed character maps of the state with drawings of landmarks and so forth on it and each major city was characterized by an apple of related size boasting its apple-growing prowess. New York City is the largest city in the state and therefor had the largest apple or "The Big Apple"
its where Granny Smith was Born.
because the apple doesn't fall far from the tree! craze's out there!! ahahahah!
There are actually several answers (nothing about New York City is simple, after all). All are explained below
Various accounts have traced the “Big Apple” expression to Depression-Era sidewalk apple vendors, a Harlem night club, and a popular 1930s dance known as the “Big Apple.”
One fanciful version even links the name with a notorious 19th-century procuress!
In fact, it was the jazz musicians of the 1930s and ‘40s who put the phrase into more or less general circulation. If a jazzman circa 1940 told you he had a gig in the “Big Apple,” you knew
he had an engagement to play in the most coveted venue of all, Manhattan, where the audience was the biggest, hippest, and
most appreciative in the country.
The older generation of jazzmen specifically credit Fletcher Henderson, one of the greatest of the early Big Band leaders and arrangers, with popularizing it, but such things are probably impossible to document. Be that as it may, the ultimate source actually was not the jazz world, but the racetrack.
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Haven't you ever seen the Droald Rahl's character, Ames and the Big Apple?
After reading the other answers there is no need in me blabbing about NYC..Well ??? An apple a day keeps the doctor away..Now dont ask where that came from just came to me..LOL
maybe it's full of worms
It's full of worms?