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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 City So Nice They Named It Twice – a reference to "New York, New York" as both the city and state, spoken by Jon Hendricks in 1959 on a jazz cover of Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers' song "Manhattan" on George Russell's album New York, N.Y., [16] and popularized by New York-based late night talk show host David Letterman, who also used ...
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.
In Blue's Big City Adventure, Josh calls New York "The Big Apple". In the 2017 video game Super Mario Odyssey, the location New Donk City, which is based on New York City, is referred to by one of its inhabitants as "the Big Banana". The cast members of Bravo's The Real Housewives of New York City each hold an apple at the end of the show's intro.
Live for today, for tomorrow never comes; Live to fight another day (This saying comes from an English proverbial rhyme, "He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day") Loose lips sink ships; Look before you leap; Love is blind – The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II, Scene 1 (1591) Love of money is the root of all evil [15]
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The Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), a branch of the government of New York City, is the largest public funder of the arts in the United States.DCLA's funding budget is larger than that of the National Endowment for the Arts, the federal government's national arts funding mechanism. [16]
Stoopers come from all walks of life and ages. Magda S., for example, works for Services for the Underserved, a New York City-based nonprofit that provides housing and support services for ...