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some say it comes from the former well-to-do families that sold apples on new york city streets to make ends meet during the great depression. new york backgrounds. but the nickname actually springs from a catchphrase used in the 1920s by new york morning telegraph sports writer john j. fitz gerald in his horse racing column, around the big apple. starting on february 18, 1924, he began the every column with the header, the big apple. the dream of every lad that ever threw a leg over a thoroughbred and the goal of all horsemen. there's only one big apple. that's new york.

once the term entered the vocabularies of society up north, its popularity slowly spread outside of the horseracing context, and everything from nightclubs in harlem to hit songs and dances about the city were named after the big apple. most notably, new york jazz musicians in the 1930s, whose habits of using the nickname to reference their hometown in their songs, made the name spread outside the northeast. new york backgrounds. throughout the mid-20th century, it remained new york city's nickname until it was officially adopted by the city in the 1970s. the new york convention and visitors bureau hoped that using the moniker would brighten the image of an economically downtrodden and crime-ridden city in decline and revive the tourist economy. new york backgrounds. in 1997, to give fitz gerald his—somewhat unjust—due, mayor rudy giuliani signed legislation naming the corner where fitz gerald and his family lived at west 54th street and broadway between 1934 and 1963 big apple corner.