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.

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“I can hold a note as long as the Chase Manhattan Bank” (singer Ethel Merman)
“I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City” (1969)
“I Happen To Like New York” (1930)
“I Left My Heart in San Francisco” (1954, 1962) ("Forgotten in Manhattan” lyric)
“I Love New York” (2005)
“I watched this play at a disadvantage—the curtain was up” (Broadway saying)
“I Won’t Go To Macy’s Any More, More More” (Jump-rope jingle, 1938)
“Ice Cream” (1995) ("Butter-Pecan Rican” lyric)
“If Hitler’s still alive, I hope he’s out of town with a musical” (Larry Gelbart)
“If it ain’t on the page, it ain’t on the stage” (theatre adage)
“If it’s too loud, you’re too old” (music adage)
“If you can’t dance, don’t blame the dance floor”
“If you have a message, call Western Union” (theatre adage)
“If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you” (theatre adage)
“It’s the notes you don’t play that matter” (jazz adage)
“Life is a dance, from one stage to the next”
“Lock ‘em up"/"Hellview of Bellevue” (1961); “For You” (1973)
“Look for the Union Label” (1975)
“Lullaby of Broadway” (1935)
“Makin’ Whoopee” (1928)
“Manhattan” (1925) (not “I’ll Take Manhattan")
“Marching Bands of Manhattan” (2005)
“Merde!” (theatrical saying, meaning “good luck")
“Miss one day of practice, I notice; miss two, the critics notice; miss three, the audience notices”
“MONY MONY” (1968)
“Moon River” (1961); “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” (1995)
“Movin’ On Up” (Theme to “The Jeffersons") (1975)
“N.Y.C.” (1977)
“Native New Yorker” (1977)
“Never work with children or animals” (show business adage)
“New York City (Such a Beautiful Disease)”
“New York Groove” (1978)
“New York State of Mind” (1975)
“New York” (2000)
“New York’s alright if you like saxophones”
“New York’s My Home” (1956)
“New York’s Not My Home” (1972)
“New York, New York (It’s a Helluva Town)” (1945)
“New York, New York” (1977)
“New York: For the Time of Your Life” (2005)
“No one can whistle a symphony; it takes a whole orchestra to play it” (teamwork aphorism)
“Nobody likes it but the public” (Broadway saying)
“NYC” (2002)
“Olympia, WA” (1995) ("52nd and Broadway” lyric)
“On Broadway” (1963)
“On the 6” (1999) & “Jenny from the Block” (2002)
“Only in New York” (2002)
“Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings”
“Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?”
“PENNSYLVANIA 6-5000” (1940)
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