The Big Apple: Microneighborhood

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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.

Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See another 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.

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Entry from March 08, 2005

Microneighborhood

New York magazine, 3 January 2005, had an article titled "The Rise of the Microneighborhood." The new "neighborhood" is a "microneighborhood" that can be defined as a block or even just part of a block.

New York magazine didn't coin the term.

Robert Sietsema, the food writer in The Village Voice, 5 March 1996, pg. 15, wrote: "Here on West 53rd, we've stumbled on one of the African microneighborhoods that are springing up all over town."

Jim Leff (of Chowhound.com fame) used "micro-neighborhood" in Newsday, 23 October 1996, pg. B27.

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New York City • Neighborhoods • (0) Comments • Tuesday, March 08, 2005 • Permalink