Name: Why is New York City Called the Big Apple ? Does it even have anything to do with apples?
Uploaded: 2022-06-27T03:30:27.000Z
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- [Narrator] Why is New York called The Big Apple?

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In this video, I'll explain why New York City

is called The Big Apple. Let's get started.

One of the most famous places around the globe,

New York City is a large, sprawling metropolis

filled with towering skyscrapers, honking yellow taxi cabs,

nestled in the city's Financial District,

this place drives entire industries and even economies,

including the department stores Bergdorf Goodman and Saks,

as well as retail stores Celine and Miu Miu.

Besides these two world-renowned streets,

New York City is also famous for the Statue of Liberty,

and the spectacular Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The borough of Brooklyn is known for its hippie vibe

while Manhattan is considered to be the city's heart,

an area where nearly everything can be found.

The incredible diversity and rich culture of New York City

are drawn to its endless hustle and bustle,

New York City is known by many nicknames,

one of them being The City that Never Sleeps,

due to how its lights are seemingly never extinguished.

With something happening all around the city

at all hours of the day, this name isn't surprising at all.

After all, how did New York City come to be named

after a fruit that doesn't even characterize it?

There is a lot of theories as to how New York City earned

the now-ubiquitous moniker, The Big Apple.

many of the city's residents found themselves

On the other hand, some also argue that the term

who worked as a brothel madam during the 19th century.

The prostitutes that she owned were called Big Apples,

However, New York City was first referred to as

The Big Apple in the 1909 book, "The Wayfarer in New York".

In its introduction, Edward Martin used the apple

as an extended metaphor to compare and contrast

the dynamics of New York City and the Midwest, writing:

New York is merely one of the fruits of that big tree

whose roots go down in the Mississippi Valley,

and whose branches spread from one ocean to the other,

but the tree has no great degree of affection for its fruit.

gets a disproportionate share of the national sap.

It is disturbed by the enormous drawing power

which constantly attracts to itself wealth

and its possessors from all the lesser centers of the land.

Every city, every State pays an annual tribute of men

and no State or city likes particularly to do it.

used it to write about the city's horse races

of the country's competitive racing events.

Because of his articles, the concept of Big Apple

to represent rewards that were highly sought

spreading to the regions outside of New York City.

jazz musicians began referring to the city as

This only served to spread the moniker even further

and The Big Apple became New York City's nickname

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