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Why New York City Got the Big Apple Nickname
Abigail Van Buren shares reader questions about the origin of the Big Apple name. Barry Popick cites 1920s New Orleans racetrack chatter popularized by John J. FitzGerald and later linked to Harlem jazz in the 1930s. Charles Gillett revived the term in 1971 as a NYC tourism slogan.
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