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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Entries in the categoryThe Big Apple
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“I had heard so much raving about ‘The Big Apple,’ as it was called” (Malcolm X, 1964)
“I’m crazy about the Big Apple” (1976 ad campaign)
“It’s another fabulous morning in the Big Apple!” (Madagascar film, 2005)
“It’s the dream, the Big Apple” (Howard Stern’s Private Parts film, 1997)
“New York has been the Big Apple for several decades (in jazz)” (New York Times, 1967)
“New York is a sucked orange” (not Big Apple; Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860)
“New York is the Big Apple” (Stephen Longstreet’s The Real Jazz: Old and New, 1956)
“New York, New York, the Big Apple” (The Last Poets, 1969-1970)
“New York, the ‘Big Apple,’ the jazz mecca” (Hart’s Guide to New York City, 1964)
“New York. The Big Apple” (The Hurt Locker film, 2008)
“New York’s the Big Apple, bub, the heaviest scene in the world” (Rolling Stone magazine, 1969)
“Nueva York! New York City! The big apple!” (Against All Odds film, 1984)
“Penguin at the Big Apple” (instrumental song by The Trammps, 1972)
“Rapping about how the Big Apple is outta sight” (The Last Poets, 1969-1970)
“Save Grand Central. No more bites out of the Big Apple!” (1975)
“Talking Big Apple ‘75” (song by Loudon Wainwright III, 1976)
“The Big Apple Bites” (The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills episode, 2018)
“The Big Apple Can Bite Me” (Cybill episode, 1996)
“The Big Apple” (Gimme a Break! episode, 1984)
“The Big Apple” (instrumental song by Hugh Masekela, 1972)
“The Big Apple” (Kate Plus 8 episode, 2010)
“The Big Apple” (Strut episode, 2016)
“The Boys on the Big Apple” (Harper’s Bazaar article, May 1947)
“The Girl Who Went To The Big Apple” (Asia’s Next Top Model episode, 2016)
“The Minnesota Night Hawks. I’m coaching. The Big Apple!” (Slap Shot film, 1977)
“To the musicians playing it, New York is ‘The Big Apple‘” (New York Is book, 1959)
“When you got to the Big Apple, they treated you like a worm” (Me, Myself & Irene film, 2000)
“Why is New York City called ‘The Big Apple?’ Wrong answers only” (2021)
“Why is New York City called the Big Apple?”
“Wow! BoJack and Todd in the Big Apple!” (BoJack Horseman episode, 2016)
1920s Non-Horseracing “Big Apple” Citations
1920s Vaudeville/Ragtime “Big Apple” Citations
1925-1929: “Big Apple” in The Inter-State Tattler
1928: “On the Big Apple” column
1963: John J. Fitz Gerald obituaries
Alain Locke and Harlem Renaissance as the “Big Apple” (1920s; suggested in 1988)
An apple tree on every street (2013 movie explanation)
Apple—New York State Symbol (2007)
Apple Awards (Guides Association of New York City, 2015-present)
Apple Bank (renamed from Harlem Savings Bank, 1983-present)
Apple Polisher & Polish the Apple (I Love a Clean New York campaign, 1976-1980)
Apple Store (2000s)
Apples and Horses
“We’re taking a bite out of the Big Apple tonight” (Blue’s Big City Adventure film, 2022)
Bacardi Big Apple (apple-flavored rum, 2005)
Bet a Big Apple
Big A (Aqueduct Racetrack nickname, 1959)
Big A (Aqueduct Racetrack nickname, 1959)
Big Apple (brand of Schwalbe bicycle tires, 2003-present)
Big Apple (Broadway, in columns by Walter Winchell and O. O. McIntyre, 1927-1928)
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