NYC vs. the Big Apple!!!
How many native New Yorkers like it when others refer to their beloved city as the big apple?
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AdamS
2yrs+
I think the real question should be WHY is it called the Big Apple? Anyone know why?
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advisor2008
2yrs+
"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!" Discover more at http://salwen.com/apple.html
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ajadedidealist
2yrs+
It's NYC, darn it, not the Big Apple. The Big Apple is a circus and a large fruit, and that's it! It's a big tourist giveaway, and makes very little sense - even Gotham is preferably as far as nicknames go!
(Of course, when used ironically...)
(Of course, when used ironically...)
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hhusted
2yrs+
The media made it up many years ago, and frankly I don't even know why. NYC is NYC just as Ajadedidealist described it. I think it is more of a publicity stunt than anything else.
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Uraniumfish
2yrs+
Big Apple makes me feel like I live in some nightmare clown-land version of a city...New York City will do just fine as a form of address, thank you.
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