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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Gyro
Manhattan Special Espresso Coffee Soda (from Brooklyn)
Root Beer Float or Ice Cream Float
Vincent’s Sauce
Fraudway; Queerialto; Double-Crossroads of the World
Cosmopolitan (cocktail)
Rugelach
Dough Nut or Doughnut or Donut; Cruller
Jewish Champagne (Dr. Brown’s Cel-Ray Soda, seltzer)
I’m from Missouri—Show Me (nickname)
“You cannot be serious!” (John McEnroe)
Tennis “Bagel”
Quisqueya Heights (Washington Heights)
Satan’s Circus
98 Nicknames
Gracie Mansion
Yupper West Side
Bloody Angle (Doyers Street)
“The Citi Never Sleeps” (Citibank)
McGurk’s Suicide Hall (the Bowery)
Butter-and-Egg Man
“I won’t go to Macy’s any more, more, more” (jump-rope jingle, 1938)
Bread Line
Citymeals-on-Wheels; City Harvest
Crossword Puzzle
Knife & Fork, Bottle & Cork Spell “New York”