Big Apple

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Mam pytanko. Dlaczego New Jork City zwane jest Big Apple??? Nikt nie potrafi
mi na to pytanie odpowiedzieć. Może ktoś wie? Z góry wielkie dzieki!
Pozdrawiam wszystkich!

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1.Why is New York City called "The Big Apple?"
Morning Telegraph reporter, John J. Fitz Gerald, first made common use of the
term during the 1920s in reference to the city's racetracks. He apparently
first heard it used by African American stable hands in New Orleans in 1921.
The term was popularized among African American jazz musicians in the 1930s,
who regarded New York, and particularly Harlem, as the capital city of jazz.
It's modern use derives largely from a publicity campaign developed in 1971 by
the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau.

2.
There are several schools of thought on this one and probably more than one
correct answer. Back in the 1920s, stableboys used to call the New Orleans race
track, The Big Apple.

Traveling jazz musicians used the name to refer to Harlem, which was the jazz
capital of the world at that time. And in the 1920s and '30s, "The Big Apple"
dance was considered to be really groovy in the nightclubs of Harlem.

In 1924, journalist, John Fitzgerald, was the first to call the City "The Big
Apple", referring to the city as a whole, in his Morning Telegraph horse-racing
column and in the early 1970s, a publicity campaign promoting the tourist
industry brought the name back into common usage.

Finally, in the summer of 1999, BBC reporter, Tony O'Rourke, started this
website and the rest is history...

3.Wersja moja ;-))(naciagana...)
Popatrz na mape NY: Queens i Brooklyn to jablko, Manhattan ogonek, a Bronx
lisc....