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Various nicknames are featured on a wall at John F. Kennedy International Airport.. The Big Apple – first published as a euphemism for New York City in 1921 by sportswriter John J. Fitz Gerald, who claimed he had heard it used the year prior by two stable hands at the New Orleans Fair Grounds because of the large prizes available at horse races in New York. [3]
Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway, in Manhattan's Theater District "The Big Apple" is a nickname for New York City.It was first popularized in the 1920s by John J. Fitz Gerald, a sportswriter for the New York Morning Telegraph.
This partial list of city nicknames in New York compiles the aliases, sobriquets, and slogans that cities in the U.S. state of New York are known by (or have been known by historically), officially and unofficially, to municipal governments, local people, outsiders, or the cities' tourism boards or chambers of commerce.
The skyline of New York City at night. The City That Never Sleeps is a ubiquitously used nickname and advertising slogan for New York City.Photographer Jacob Riis describes The Bowery as never sleeping in his 1898 book Out of Mulberry Street: Stories of Tenement Life in New York City.
The nickname "Empire State" is believed to have origins dating back to a letter written by George Washington in 1785, where he praised New York's resilience and referred to it as "the Seat of the ...
The New Yorkers – Reference to New York City, and the publication The New Yorker. The Damn Yankees – Reference to the play and movie of the same name . Used by detractors around Major League Baseball for winning too many championships.
Canandaigua was required to move on from the Braves nickname and Friendship Belt logo because the New York State Board of Regents voted unanimously to prohibit the use of Native American names ...
Map of the United States showing the state nicknames as hogs. Lithograph by Mackwitz, St. Louis, 1884. The following is a table of U.S. state, federal district and territory nicknames, including officially adopted nicknames and other traditional nicknames for the 50 U.S. states, the U.S. federal district, as well as five U.S. territories.