The Big Apple: I will bring you down to Chinatown!

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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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 March 07, 2006

I will bring you down to Chinatown!

"I will bring you down to Chinatown!" is what Robert De Niro said to Ben Stiller in the film comedy Meet the Parents (2000).

De Niro meant that he would rough Stiller up (maybe with martial arts), not give him a nice Chinese meal in Chinatown.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0212338/quotes
Jack Byrnes: I will be watching you and if I find that you are trying to corrupt my first born child, I will bring you down, baby. I will bring you down to Chinatown.

Posted by Barry Popik
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