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Why is New York called "the big apple"?

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  1. Various accounts have traced the “Big Apple” expression to

    Depression-Era sidewalk apple vendors, a Harlem night

    club, and a popular 1930s dance known as the “Big Apple.”

    One fanciful version even links the name with a notorious

    19th-century procuress!

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