Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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General Tso’s Chicken
Cappuccino
City That Never Sleeps
Straphanger
Bridge and Tunnel People
Forty Deuce (42nd Street)
Herald Square and Times Square
Library Lions (Patience and Fortitude; Lord Lenox and Lady Astor; Leo and Leonora)
Dude
Brownie; Meter Maid
Bodega
Gridlock
Zucchini Sticks
Smoke-Eater; Smoke-Chewer
Do a Brodie
If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere
“Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded” (restaurant joke)
Pasta Primavera (Spaghetti Primavera)
Broadway Blueshirts
Belgian Waffle
Alphabet City (East Village, Manhattan)
N.Y.C.
Clams Casino
Who Owns New York?
Lobster Newberg (Lobster Newburg; Lobster Newburgh)
Negimaki or Negimayaki
Blackout Cake
New York System 〈Providence, RI “hot dogs”〉
Apples and Horses
Variety
Big Time and Big Town
World’s Most Famous Arena (Madison Square Garden nickname)
Test of a Champion (Belmont Stakes)
Silicon Alley
Ragtime
Big Apples Are Top of the Barrel
Hip-Hop
Avenue of Heroes; Canyon of Heroes
Johnny Pump
Tar Beach
Stick Ball
Brooklyn Side, New York Side (tenpins)
Superman; Superstar; Supermodel
Sweatshop (Sweat Shop, or Sweating Shop)
Koreatown
Curry Hill (curry + Murray Hill)
Empire City, Empire State
Yellow Journalism
Jewish Penicillin
Hash House Lingo
MePa (Meat Packing District)
Pasta e Fagioli (“Pasta Fazool”)
Play Street
Traffic Court
Dem Bums (Brooklyn Dodgers)
Molten Chocolate Cake
“I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it”
Pizza
DUMBO (Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass)
SoHo (South of Houston Street)
Bialy
“New York’s Picture Newspaper” or “New York’s Picture Paper” (New York Daily News slogan)