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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Coliseum Books (not near the departed Coliseum)
Ladies’ Day
America’s Cup (Damon Runyon’s “watching grass grow”)
“Copacabana (At the Copa)” (1978)
“Longest Running Show on Broadway” (Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade)
“Nina” in Al Hirschfeld’s caricatures (New York Times)
Carry/hold a torch for someone
Steak Row (East 45th Street)
“A nickel a shtickel”
Express/Local Trains - what to do with minutes saved?
“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers…”
“The House That Ruth Built” (Yankee Stadium)
“It Shines For All” (New York Sun)
Dollar Van
Big Apple Bowl
World’s Second Home
“Call me a taxi.”/“You’re a taxi!”
Scratchiti
World’s Most Famous Christmas Tree
San Juan Hill; The Gut
Golden Edge (110th Street); Hollywood Heights (St. Nicholas Place)
“Twelve-Thirty”(1968)
“Chelsea Morning” (1969)
CBGB & OMFUG
Page Six
“The Most New York You Can Get” (Daily News)
“New York’s Most Famous Store Since Before the Civil War” (Hammacher Schlemmer)
“Made in New York”