why do they call new york the big apple?
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"A decade later many jazz musicians began calling the City "The Big Apple" to refer to New York City (especially Harlem) as the jazz capital of the world. Soon the nickname became synonymous with New York City and its cultural diversity. In the early 1970s the name played an important role in reviving New York's tourist economy through a campaign led by the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau. Today the nickname "The Big Apple," which replaced "Fun City," is the international description of the city and is synonymous with the cultural and tourist attractions of New York City."
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Actually,\n\nOhio and New York are both in Texas. We are such a big state that we are  "our own country".\nAs we have expanded outward, Ohio , New York and everything in between have become suburbs .\nSoon, the entire world will be line dancing, drinking draft beer and punching cows.
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New York City, according to the movie
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I think that individual cities decide how to label their streets in their city ordinances.\n\nFor example, in Manhattan, the streets run east to west and the avenues run north and south.
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I do live in NYC and I love it.\n\nAnd why is it so difficult to type full words?
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Greenwich village IS in Manhattan. It's a district of the borough of Manhattan.
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YES!! .....The name Gotham is an old nickname of New York.\n\nGotham City is a fictional city appearing in DC Comics, and is best known as the home of Batman. Batman's place of residence was first identified as Gotham City in Detective Comics #48 (February 1941); before then, Batman's adventures happened in either New York City or an unnamed city. Gotham is known to be architecturally modeled after New York or Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but with more exaggerated vices. The name Gotham is an old nickname of New York.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotham_City\n\nMETROPOLIS, Illinois....is situated on Interstate 24 halfway between Nashville, Tennessee and St. Louis, Missouri\n\nOn January 21,1972, Metropolis, Illinois was given authorization by National Periodical Publications (D.C. Comics) to become the adopted "Home of Superman". The same year the state of Illinois also recognized Metropolis as the "Home of Superman" by passing House resolution #572. Superman himself was designated a "distinguished Son of Metropolis", The only so-named city in the United States. The Metropolis Chamber of Commerce then set into motion a promotional program to use Superman in a not-for-profit manner to promote the general welfare of the Metropolis Community.\nMetropolis is situated on Interstate 24 halfway between Nashville, Tennessee and St. Louis, Missouri, while Paducah, Kentucky is only 10 miles away. Metropolis is full of history. we are proud to be the home of the oldest state park in Illinois. Fort Massac State Park became the first official state park in 1908.\n\nhttp://www.metropolischamber.com/
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The name has nothing to do with the shape of the building.  The name comes from "Madison Square" which, historically, was located at Madison Avenue and 23rd Street.  This was a large, open park at the above intersection. \n\nThe website below can give you a more detailed history of the famous building(s).
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The "Broadway" you are referring to is probably the one in New York City, although I am sure every town in America has a street called Broadway.  We have Broadway Avenue where I live.
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"When and how did New York City come to be called "The Big Apple'?"\nThis is by far the most frequently asked question submitted to our New York History Hotline.\n\nIn popular folklore, the name is usually traced to early jazz musicians or long-ago sports figures. Often, the explanation of the so-called "origin" of this phrase is accompanied with plausible-sounding historical or biographical details, giving it an unmistakable (but alas, totally spurious) "ring of truth."\n\nBecause this question continues to excite curiosity, and because the real facts are quite well known to serious historians, we provide the following authoritative account, based on our unique archival sources. The story may disappoint some readers -- truth, after all, is often less colorful than fiction. But facts are facts.\n\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nIn the early years of the nineteenth century, refugees from war-torn Europe began arriving in New York in great numbers. Many were remnants of the crumbling French aristocracy, forced to seek refuge abroad from the dread "Monsieur Guillotine." Arriving here without funds or friends, many of these were forced to survive, as one contemporary put it, "by their wits or worse."\nOne of these, arriving in late 1803 or early 1804, was Mlle. Evelyn Claudine de Saint-Évremond. Daughter of a noted courtier, wit, and littérateur, and herself a favorite of Marie Antoinette, Evelyn was by all accounts remarkably attractive: beautiful, vivacious, and well-educated, and she was soon a society favorite. For reasons never disclosed, however, a planned marriage the following year to John Hamilton, son of the late Alexander Hamilton, was called off at the last minute. Soon after, with support from several highly placed admirers, she established a salon -- in fact, it appears to have been an elegantly furnished bordello -- in a substantial house that still stands at 142 Bond Street, then one of the city's most exclusive residential districts.\n\nEvelyn's establishment quickly won, and for several decades maintained, a formidable reputation as the most entertaining and discreet of the city's many "temples of love," a place not only for lovemaking, but also for elegant dinners, high-stakes gambling, and witty conversation. The girls, many of them fresh arrivals from Paris or London, were noted for their beauty and bearing. More than a few of them, apparently, were actually able to secure wealthy husbands from among the establishment's clientele.\n\nWhen New Yorkers insisted on anglicizing her name to "Eve," Evelyn apparently found the biblical reference highly amusing, and for her part would refer to the temptresses in her employ as "my irresistable apples." The young men-about-town soon got into the habit of referring to their amorous adventures as "having a taste of Eve's Apples." This knowing phrase established the speaker as one of the "in" crowd, and at the same time made it clear he had no need to visit one of the coarser establishments that crowded nearby Mercer Street, for instance. The enigmatic reference in Philip Hone's famous diary to "Ida, sweet as apple cider" (October 4, 1838) has been described as an oblique reference to a visit to what had by then become a notorious but cherished civic institution.\n\nThe rest, as they say, is etymological history.\n\nThe sexual connotation of the word "apple" was well known in New York and throughout the country until around World War I. The Gentleman's Directory of New York City, a privately published (1870) guide to the town's "houses of assignation," confidently asserted that "in freshness, sweetness, beauty, and firmness to the touch, New York's apples are superior to any in the New World or indeed the Old." Meanwhile, various &
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Because of all the rich people that live there.\n\nA lot of people that make it in New York or Boston move or get country homes in Connecticut.
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people think is the poormans new york
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New York City. It's full of single people. You can find just about anyone in NYC.
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If you try looking at Wikipedia, you will probably find all the answers you are looking for. :)\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York
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The biggest real estate agent in NY City!\n\nIt is assumed that this saying comes from New York City (where real estate values are high). The saying was popular in the home selling business in the 1950s and probably comes from a non-New York realtor.\n\nhttp://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/location_location_location/
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the capital is albany, but it should be NYC
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I live in a small town in Louisiana and I really would like to be in a big city so probably New York. The other city`s are big too, but I just think New York is such a cool place.