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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Swing Street (52nd Street)
Beefsteak
Manicotti
Tiffany Network (CBS)
Twofer
Reuben Sandwich (and Rachel Sandwich, Celebrity Sandwiches)
Vaudeville
Vichyssoise
Manhattan Silver/White (drugs)
NYPD & FDNY
Irish Riviera (Breezy Point)
Coney Island whitefish
“Live, from New York! It’s Saturday Night!” (Saturday Night Live)
“New York State of Mind” (1975)
“New York, New York” (1977)
“Autumn in New York” (1934)
“(I Like New York in June) How About You?” (1941)
“New York, New York (It’s a Helluva Town)” (1945)
“Give My Regards to Broadway” (1904)
“Sidewalks of New York (East Side, West Side)” (1894)
“Manhattan” (1925) (not “I’ll Take Manhattan”)
“Take the ‘A’ Train” (1941)
“PENNSYLVANIA 6-5000” (1940)
“New York’s Not My Home” (1972)
“Shattered” (1978) (Rolling Stones’ “Big Apple” lyric)
“42nd Street” (1933)
“Lullaby of Broadway” (1935)
“Spanish Harlem” (1960)
“The Bowery” (1892)
“Ev’ry Street’s a Boulevard in Old New York” (1953)
“New York Groove” (1978)
“The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy)” (1966)
“B.A., Buenos Aires, Big Apple” (Evita musical, 1978)
“Boy From New York City” (1965)
“Native New Yorker” (1977)
New York Font
“Streets of New York (In Old New York)” (1906)
Little Africa
Oyster Pan Roast
“Scrapple From the Apple” (1947)
The Bronx? No Thonx!
Celebutante
Bi-coastal (NY & LA)
Manhattan Project
Tudor City
Co-op City
CUNY (City University of New York)
Mayor’s Trophy
Beavers (CCNY teams)
Violets, Bobcats (NYU teams)
Blue and White, Cubs, Lions (Columbia teams)
Redmen, Red Storm (St. John’s teams)
Manhattan College (in the Bronx)
Jaspers (Manhattan College teams)
Rams (Fordham University teams)
Kingsmen, Bridges (Brooklyn College teams)
Knights (Queens College teams)
Seahawks (Wagner College teams)
Maccabees (Yeshiva University teams)
Setters (Pace University teams)
Big Apple Circus
Golden Gloves (boxing)
Big Brothers (Big Sisters)
PAL (Police Athletic League)
PSAL (Public Schools Athletic League)
Double Dutch
Millionaires’ Row (Fifth Avenue)
Wigstock
Parkway
Boulevard of Death (Queens Boulevard)
Death Avenue; Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
Harlem Globetrotters
“Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do)” (1981)
“Fame” (1980)
Con Ed or Con Edison (Consolidated Edison)
Frog and Toe
Mecca of Telephone Men
Mason (Fruit) Jar
Cathedral of Commerce (Woolworth Building)
Hell’s Hundred Acres
Commercial Emporium
“Moon River” (1961); “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” (1995)
“Soup Nazi”
Parsons Table
“Don’t Rain On My Parade” (1964, 1968)
B’way (Broadway)
Manhattan Schist
WaHI (Washington Heights & Inwood)
MaHi (Marble Hill)