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.

Recent entries:
“Instead of ‘British Summer Time’ and ‘Greenwich Mean Time’ we should just call them ‘Oven Clock Correct Time’...” (3/28)
“Has anyone here ever drank a pint of tequila? I know it’s a long shot” (3/28)
“A pint of tequila? That’s a long shot” (3/28)
“The U.S. should add three more states. Because 53 is a prime number. Then they can truly be one nation, indivisible” (3/28)
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Bag Lady

Little Colombia (Chapinero or Chapinerito)

Little Hungary

Little Syria

“Brooklyn is the bedroom of New York”

Pizzeria

Sugar Hill

“Wise Men Fish Here” (Gotham Book Mart)

Museum Mile

Little Old New York

Brooklyn chewing gum (from Italy)

Iraq (LeFrak City); Kuwait (Queensbridge)

Restaurant Row (West 46th Street)

Greenmarket

Pistol (Carnegie Deli); LEO (Stage Deli)

A New Yorker’s View of the World

Fort Apache (41st Police Precinct in the Bronx nickname)

Bowery Boy

Who played for Yankees, Knicks and Rangers in the same year?

Dead End Kids

“Does Macy’s tell Gimbels?”

Bed-Stuy (Do or Die); Bed-Stuy and Proud of It

Miss Subways

EV (East Village)

Meet Me at/under…

Op-Ed (opposite editorial)

Appetizing Store (“Appy”)

Delicatessen Store (“Deli”)

Little Germany (Kleindeutschland)

Five Points

Mad. Ave.

Dirty Water Dog

Rockettes

Windy City (Chicago nickname)

GWB (George Washington Bridge, not G. W. Bush)

Little Bohemia

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus

Litterbug (Litter Bug)

Polar Bears

Little Rumania

Roaring Forties

Flower Market/District & FloMa

Fur District

Zipper

Ladies’ Mile

SpaHa (Spanish Harlem)

SoHa (South of Harlem)

SoCo (South of Columbia University)

Superflack

“Send a Salami to Your Boy in the Army”

Bargain District (Orchard Street)

LoHo

Tootsie Roll

Chicken Divan

Book Row (or, Booksellers’ Row)

MoMA (Museum of Modern Art)

Mr. Met (New York Mets mascot)

Lotto: “Dollar and a Dream” & “Hey, You Never Know” & “You’ve Gotta Be In It To Win It”

Jumbotron

Spirit of Communication (Golden Boy)

Diana (of Madison Square Garden)

“Why do they call it a World Series when it’s always played in the Bronx?”

“New York’s alright if you like saxophones”

“World’s Largest Store” (Macy’s)

“Like No Other Store in the World” (Bloomingdale’s)

“If you see something, say something” (safety slogan)

New York Roll (sushi)

No Soap. Radio

“New York City (Such a Beautiful Disease)”