Exactly why is New York City called “The Big Apple”?

There has 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 Science and Technology, has provided a reasonably clear picture of the term’s history.

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Ny was popularized being a mention of Nyc by John J. Fitz Gerald in a number of The big apple Morning Telegraph articles inside the 1920s in mention of the The big apple horse-racing.



It’s declared the winning horse got another the big apple following your race… so all the horses would obtain the Ny.

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Funny, isn’t it?!

 

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