2006-12-08 20:47:24 · 8 answers · asked by Ghada B 1 in Travel ➔ United States ➔ New York City
cos like a rotten apple it is full of worms & maggots
2006-12-08 20:58:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are actually several answers (nothing about New York
City is simple, after all). All are explained below, with the last
word going, appropriately enough, to SNYCH’s own Joe Zito,
one of this burg’s finest purveyors of high-quality urban history.
A veteran both of New York City’s inimitable press corps and its
police department, Joe—happily for us—is able to provide
authoritative first-hand testimony on this topic. Read on!
Various accounts have traced the “Big Apple” expression to
Depression-Era sidewalk apple vendors, a Harlem night
club, and a popular 1930s dance known as the “Big Apple.”
One fanciful version even links the name with a notorious
19th-century procuress!
In fact, it was the jazz musicians of the 1930s and ‘40s who put
the phrase into more or less general circulation. If a jazzman
circa 1940 told you he had a gig in the “Big Apple,” you knew
he had an engagement to play in the most coveted venue of all,
Manhattan, where the audience was the biggest, hippest, and
most appreciative in the country.
2006-12-08 20:49:30 · answer #2 · answered by ☺ PeeJ ☺ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I heard it was called the big apple because when actors did plays when they were going to go New york they were going to do the play in the Big apple
2006-12-08 22:22:11 · answer #3 · answered by Robert G 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
About 50 years ago, there were plenty of jazz clubs on West 52nd Street in Manhattan. Jazz musicians from throughout the country wanted to play on 52nd Street. Those who made it there hung out after gigs and called Manhattan the "big apple" as a slang term.
2006-12-09 01:53:35 · answer #4 · answered by mac 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because there's a big apple in New York? :)
I honestly don't know.
2006-12-08 20:49:01 · answer #5 · answered by ♥ Cliff 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is 5:30 in the morning and you are asking about the what? Big what? Apple? Why It's called that . OOOOHHHH. BOY.Lets see.
2006-12-08 21:36:14 · answer #6 · answered by MikeDot3s 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check out www.gonyc.about.com/cs/atozinde1/a/bigapple.htm.
The term Big apple started in the early thirties and is to do with horse racing and jazz.
2006-12-09 06:01:38 · answer #7 · answered by carole 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
becuz its beautiful on the outside but on the inside its rotten and has worms... lol... i dont kno
2006-12-08 20:50:08 · answer #8 · answered by bigguu254 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋