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July 3, 2021
The Big Apple1980s-present: Big Apple work by Gerald Cohen, Barry Popik

The Big Apple Shopping Bazaar (Delray Beach, FL, 2013-present)

The Big Apple Shopping Bazaar began in 2013 and is located at 5283 W Atlantic Ave, Delray Beach, Florida. The website states that there are 65 specialty boutiques, along with copies of New York…

April 25, 2021
The Big Apple1980s-present: Big Apple work by Gerald Cohen, Barry Popik

The Kid from the Big Apple (two films, 2015 and 2017)

The Kid from the Big Apple is a movie that won four awards at the 7th Macau International Movie Festival on December 13, 2015, and was released in Malaysia and Singapore on March 10, 2016. The plot…

November 23, 2022
The Big Apple1980s-present: Big Apple work by Gerald Cohen, Barry Popik

The Queer Big Apple Corps (marching band, 2022-present)

The Lesbian & Gay Big Apple Corps was founded in 1979 as the New York Gay Community Marching Band by Nancy Corporon (music director) and Bob Wolff (general manager). The name change to…

September 13, 2022
The Big Apple1970s: Big Apple Revival

The Year the Big Apple Went Bust (book by Fred Ferretti, 1976)

The Year the Big Apple Went Bust (1976) is the title of a book by New York (NY) Times reporter Fred Ferretti, who died in 2022 at age 90. The book chronicles New York City's fiscal crisis in…

August 8, 2018
The Big Apple1970s-present: False Etymologies

There are many apples on the tree, but when you pick NYC, you pick the Big Apple (1975)

The New York Convention and Visitors Bureau, led by president Charles Gillett (1915-1995), re-popularized the term "Big Apple" with its advertising campaign in the 1970s. In May 1975,…

April 19, 2018
The Big Apple1970s-present: False Etymologies

Tightening of Adam’s Apple (suggested in 1978)

It is sometimes claimed that in the sports and entertainment worlds, when someone would play in New York City (the big time), the performer's Adam's apple would tighten, and, from this,…

July 12, 2004
The Big Apple1920s: John J. Fitz Gerald and the N.Y. Morning Telegraph

Witness (1998): Washington Post writer Shirley Povich

No one would help me to find living witnesses. No one in New York City and no one in New Orleans. Many people who could have contributed to this story are now dead. The New Orleans stablehands were…

April 11, 2006
The Big Apple1920s: John J. Fitz Gerald and the N.Y. Morning Telegraph

Witness (2006): Joe Zito

In 2006, the Society for New York City History (SNYCH) changed its website. No longer did it declare that "the Big Apple" came from a 19th century French whore. The horseracing theory was…

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