Why is Nyc called “The Big Apple”?
There's been many rumors why NYC is known as “The Big Apple” for a long period, but research over the past 20 years, primarily by amateur etymologist Barry Popik and Gerald Cohen of Missouri University of Technology and science, provides a reasonably clear picture from the term’s history.
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The Big Apple was initially popularized like a mention of the Nyc by John J. Fitz Gerald in a number of New York Morning Telegraph articles in the 1920s in mention of the Ny horse-racing.
It’s asserted the winning horse got another ny after the race… so all the horses were going to get the Ny.
Funny, isn’t it?!