Where is New York's nickname, THE BIG APPLE come from?

Question

How does " the big apple " have the meaning of New York , history of the nickname n who invented it???

thanks a lot

Answer 1

I never really asked myself why New York City is also called "The Big Apple". Today I found the answer... At least a possible one.

I went to Harlem and walked around for a couple of hours. I happend to come across the "Uptown Saterday Nite" Festival which is part of the 2005 Harlem Week. Nothing sensational but on the corner of 135th Street and 7th Avenue I noticed this old red building with a sign showing an upside down apple saying "The Big Apple". I took a photograph and went on.
After coming home I did a little research on the internet, looking for this particular sign in Harlem. That's how I found out about the history of this sign and New Yorks nickname.

In the 1920's Jazz musicians picked the term "Big Apple" up from horseracing people who considered New York races and gigs to be where the big money was. Since a horse, up for a big purse in New York City, can't get paid off in big money himself, the lingo promised him a big apple. At this time a night club opened in Harlem called "The Big Apple". Some historians think that New Yorks nickname may have come from this long forgotten club. The club is gone, the sign, with its upside down apple, is still there.

For another theory you may want to read this article from the Society for New York City History.

(Katherine Nemet)

Answer 2

ny is primary as "ny" via fact some time past a renowned human beings hero (Johnny Appleseed) planted a single seed interior the middle of the city. Then, in an unusual warp in area-time, a boy named Jack planted a seed he believed to be magical interior a similar spot. In what remains seen a marveling organic and organic progression, the two seeds fused collectively on a molecular point. After an excellent rain, the seed hybrid grew into an apple 300ft tall and approximatively 330ft huge. The strangest situation being the absence of a tree. it form of feels the apple became thoroughly wide-spread, different than it grew straight away from the floor with its own roots like a beanstalk of a few variety. for some destiny years, human beings would bypass to the city and look up on the impossible fruit and picture "it incredibly is a extensive apple". After a collectively as human beings began bearing on the city itself as "ny". yet then, 1943 Oct eleventh, some thing unusual occurred. via fact the city laid to chill out, the night as quickly as returned upon them, there became an exquisite flash of purple mild. The flash lasted for just about 4-5 seconds. no person is for particular what brought about the flash, yet as quickly because it became over the apple had in basic terms disappeared. no longer in basic terms had it vanished, the floor it had grown from had closed as though it have been by no ability there. some say the apple had grown so great it created some variety of fruity supernova and collapsed in on itself in a black hollow. some say the extraterrestrial beings in charge for the death of the dinosaurs got here back and destroyed the apple as properly. We would by no ability comprehend precisely what occurred that night, yet one situation is for particular. That became a great-*** apple.

Answer 3

1950s jazz musicians dubbed NYC the big apple when they started to talk slang to each other when playing at other cities like Chicago, New Orleans, Nashville, etc.. The name stuck and today NYC is known as The Big Apple.

Answer 4

upstate farms makes a lot of apples

Answer 5

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