The Big Apple

Above, a plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at west 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan.

Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Oct. 17, 1931, Turf Play, p. 7.

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.

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Entry from August 08, 2004

We Can Kick Your City’s Ass

This one is not too tourism-friendly, in my humble opinion. It was coined by a writer on David Letterman's The Late Show and spoken by Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

Click on the "Big Apple Corner" icon and you'll find that it's on David Letterman's block. I've never been on his show, he's never helped me with "the Big Apple," and he does things like this?

13 April 1995, New York Times, pg. B3:
But as Mr. Letterman turned the camera on Mr. Giuliani there was clear enthusiasm in the Mayor's voice as he uttered the words of the fifth choice, which were at that moment flashed live on the Jumbotron in Times Square: "We can kick your city's ass."

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