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.

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Entry from May 10, 2008
Tweeding or Tweeded (after William M. Tweed)

The blog “Queens Crap” began in December 2006, with this stated purpose: “A website focused on the overdevelopment and ‘tweeding’ of the borough of Queens in the City of New York.”
 
The word comes from the name of William M. (“Boss”) Tweed (1823-1878), a symbol of a corrupt New York City government official and a political boss. “Tweeding” is also a method of sewing, but that is not implied in the New York usage.
 
   
Wikipedia: William M. Tweed
William M. Tweed (April 3, 1823 – April 12, 1878), sometimes informally called Boss Tweed, was an American politician who was convicted for stealing over 100 million dollars from New York City taxpayers through political corruption and died in jail on April 12th 1878. Tweed was head of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in the politics of 19th century New York. 
 
Urban Dictionary
Pull a Tweed
to trick, decieve or prank: a Refrence to Burly Boss Tweed, a 19th century gangster who rigged elections and stole more than $200 million from the City of NY
Nash tried to pull a Tweed on Dmitri by making him think he owed money to Nash.
by Clemenza New Jersey Apr 7, 2006
   
Living Creatively - Glossary
Tweeding
Tweeding is a method of sewing, or embroidery using two or more colours of thread in the needle at the same time. 
 
Queens Crap 
A website focused on the overdevelopment and “tweeding” of the borough of Queens in the City of New York
   
18 October 1928, Christian Science Monitor, pg. 4:
Portrait of Tammany in 1928 Shows It “Out-Tweeding Tweed”
   
CUNY Matters (Winter 1998)
The Tweeding of New York
(...)
Since 1871, the stereotype of Tweed as a hallmark of corruption has been repeated by authors, journalists, and media commentators…and has led to a kind of Tweeding of New York City as a civic den of iniquity.
 
Queens Crap
Thursday, June 14, 2007
The final frontier
Development of the Rockaways may mean that people who live there may finally be serviced by the city. Or is the correct verb “tweeded?”
 
Queens Crap
Friday, September 21, 2007
Gubernatorial tweeding

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