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"How do you get to Carnegie Hall?" is a question visitors often ask. Old-time New Yorkers can provide the punchline: "Practice!" The joke has been cited in print since 1955.…
New York City's Grand Central Terminal (often called "Grand Central Station") is very congested during rush hour. Something that is "like Grand Central station" is very…
Actually, people DO want to live here. Have you seen New York real estate prices lately?I've done the only work on this phrase, most often applied to New York City but sometimes to other…
"Tin Pan Alley" was the name of the music publishing area of Manhattan on 28th Street, between Broadway and Sixth Avenue. Music publishers came to the area in the 1880s and began to leave…
When the New York Yankees play the New York Giants, or the Brooklyn Dodgers, or now the New York Mets in a baseball World Series, it's called a "Subway Series." The first three…
"Bronx Bombers" is a popular nickname of the New York Yankees baseball team. The Yankees originally played in Manhattan in 1903, but opened Yankee Stadium in the Bronx in 1923.…
The New York "Yankees" American League baseball team did not originally have that name. "Yankee" has meant an American, or, more specifically, someone from New England. The 1902…
New York's "Fun City" nickname was born in the first days of Mayor John Lindsay's administration in January 1966. There was a transit strike; after observing New York's…
"Great White Way" has been the most popular nickname for the Broadway theater district in New York City. "The Great White Way" was originally the title of a 1901 book by Albert…
In the February 1994 issue of Irish America (available at HighBeam), I published the story of John J. Fitz Gerald and the Big Apple. It was the only periodical that (then and now) accepted my work.…
The New York Times has published a book collection of its FYI columns titled Only in New York (2004). A big red apple is on the cover of the book, but "the Big Apple" is never answered in…
Charles Gillett helped secure the Democratic National Convention for New York City in 1976. This is from the New York Times, February 17, 1974, og. 453:"'American was founded at a…
Charles Gillett (1915-1995), then president of the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau, is responsible for the 1970s "Big Apple" campaign that revived the nickname. It played a…
It's not difficult to see how this "Big Apple" attribution would occur. American writer Damon Runyon (1880-1946) was noted for his underworld slang. He had a character called…
There are "Big Apple" citations in the 1920s that have nothing to do with horseracing. These are after 1925. If you consider the horseracing uses to mean "Big Apple = New York…
[See also part one, "Big Apple Corner (1992-1997)," and part three, "Big Apple Corner (New York Morning Telegraph site)," and part four, "Big Apple Corner (sign stolen,…
[See also part two, "Big Apple Corner (1997 Law & Today)," and part three, "Big Apple Corner (New York Morning Telegraph site)," and part four, "Big Apple Corner (sign…
Just before Charles Gillett's campaign revived "Big Apple" in the 1970s, there is one important citation. The New-York Historical Society liked it enough to put it on its web…
A simple "Big Apple Bet" is at the core of the modern discovery of the "Big Apple" and this very web site.The "Big Apple" dance comes from Columbia, South Carolina. A…