A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

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.

Recent entries:
“Shoutout to ATM fees for making me buy my own money” (3/27)
“Thank you, ATM fees, for allowing me to buy my own money” (3/27)
“Anyone else boil the kettle twice? Just in case the boiling water has gone cold…” (3/27)
“Shout out to ATM fees for making me buy my own money” (3/27)
20-20-20 Rule (for eyes) (3/27)
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Desk Appearance Ticket (DAT)

Black-and-White (cookie)

Perp Walk

Labor Day

Dead Man’s Curve

City of Churches (Brooklyn)

Borough of Homes

Boogie Down Bronx

Crooklyn

Shao-Lin (Staten Island)

WillyB, Billyburg, Billburg, B-burg (Williamsburg, Brooklyn)

Dead Line

Santa Claus & Sidewalk Santas

Little Odessa; Little Ukraine

Little Poland (Greenpoint, Brooklyn)

Orient Express or International Line (7 train)

Hymietown; Jew York (Jew + New York)

New Jack City

Little Brazil

Murder, Inc.

Little India (East 6th Street in Manhattan)

Power Breakfast; Power Lunch

“On Line” (not “in line”)

Bet a Big Apple

NoHo (North of Houston Street)

Chop Suey

Nuyorican

Flagel (Flat Bagel, or Flat)

“Don’t Even THINK of Parking Here,” “No Parking, No Standing, No Stopping, No Kidding”

Alternate side of the street parking

Eurotrash

Mush (sauerkraut & roll)

Bat Mitzvah

Obie Award

Tony Award

Off-Off Broadway

World Trade Center; Twin Towers

Never/Rarely (N/R subway lines)

Gypsy Cab

Gypsy Robe (Legacy Robe)

Wilding (“Central Park Jogger” incident)

Garment Center (Garment District; Fashion Center; Fashion District)

Oreo

Sayre’s Law: Mayors of NY come from nowhere and go nowhere

5th Avenue (candy bar)

Fashion Avenue; Fashion Capital of the World

Newsradio; “Give us 22 minutes, we’ll give you the world”

Diamond District (Diamond & Jewelry Way)

“Going to the city” (Manhattan)