Упрости сложные слова и немного сократи текст. Nicknames of the New York City
New York City is known by many nicknames, one of them being The City that Never Sleeps, a moniker that they earned due to how its lights are seemingly never extinguished. With something happening all around the city at all hours of the day, this name isn't surprising at all. But its other nickname, The Big Apple, is undoubtedly much more confusing. After all, how did New York City come to be named How did New York City come to be named the Big Apple? after a fruit that doesn't even characterize it?
There is a lot of theories as to how New York City earned the now-ubiquitous moniker, The Big Apple. Some claim that this nickname was due to how formerly wealthy families began selling apples on the streets during the Great Depression,
in a bid to make ends meet. During this economic downturn, many of the city's residents found themselves jobless and without prospects. Rather than beg or steal, they sold apples at a profit instead. On the other hand, some also argue that the term originated from a woman named Eve, who worked as a brothel madam during the 19th century.
The prostitutes that she owned were called Big Apples, for reasons largely unknown.
However, New York City was first referred to as The Wayfarer in New York The Big Apple in the 1909 book, "The Wayfarer in New York". In its introduction, Edward Martin used the apple as an extended metaphor to compare and contrast the dynamics of New York City and the Midwest, writing: New York is merely one of the fruits of that big tree
whose roots go down in the Mississippi Valley, and whose branches spread from one ocean to the other, but the tree has no great degree of affection for its fruit. It inclines to think that the big apple gets a disproportionate share of the national sap. It is disturbed by the enormous drawing power of a metropolis, which constantly attracts to itself wealth and its possessors from all the lesser centers of the land. Every city, every State pays an annual tribute of men and of business to New York, and no State or city likes particularly to do it. But the nickname only gained traction when sports writer John J. Fitz Gerald used it to write about the city's horse races for the New York Morning Telegraph, calling these The Big Apples of the country's competitive racing events.
Because of his articles, the concept of Big Apple to represent rewards that were highly sought became increasingly popular, spreading to the regions outside of New York City.
By the late 1920s and early 1930s, jazz musicians began referring to the city as
The Big Apple, writing and singing songs that used this nickname. This only served to spread the moniker even further and The Big Apple became New York City's nickname
throughout the 20th century. In the 1970s, it was formally adopted by the city, with the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau hoping that it would revive their tourist economy, which had taken a huge hit, due to the image of the city as economically downtrodden and crime-ridden. The moniker was made even more official in 1997
when then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani signed legislation naming the corner where John J. Fitz Gerald had lived with his family as the Big Apple Corner. This place at West 54th Street and Broadway, is still known by this nickname to this day.