New York City

Newspaper Row

Newspapers in the 19th century liked to be close to the source of news -- city hall. In the second half of the nineteenth century (roughly 1875-1900), Park Row in Manhattan was also called…

NFHell (NFL + hell)

The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league, headquartered in New York City. The NFL has been dubbed "NFHell" or "NFhell" or "NFhelL"…

Nickel Empire (Coney Island)

Coney Island, the entertainment resort located in Brooklyn, was dubbed the "Nickel Empire" in the 1930s and 1940s for several reasons. New York City's subway (of which Coney Island…

Nickel Series (Nickel World Series)

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…

Nickel-and-Dime

Entry in progress -- B.P. Wiktionary: nickel and dimeAlternative forms. nickel-and-dimeEtymologyFrom the names of two US coins of small value.Adjectivenickel and dime1. (US, idiomatic, colloquial)…

Nicotini (nicotine + martini)

Many restaurants and bars throughout the world have banned smoking to eliminate second-hand smoke. Some enterprising individuals decided to try to put nicotine directly into the food and drinks.…

Nifty

Entry in progress -- B.P. "Nifty" is used in the financial terms "Nifty Fifty" and "Nifty Nine." "Nifty" is said in Wikipedia to mean "National Index…

Nifty Fifty

"Nifty Fifty" was a term popular in early 1970s to represent fifty growth stocks, with high price-to-earnings ratios, that drove the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The "Nifty…

Nifty Nine

The name "Nifty Fifty" referred to 50 popular large-cap stocks on the New York Stock Exchange in the 1960s and 1970s that were regarded as the major movers of the Dow Jones Industrial…