Why is new York called the big apple?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Apple

too easy…

my understanding is that it was a reference to how cheap it was for the dutch to obtain it. there’s a saying, if something is cheap, that you got it “for an apple & an egg,” as in, for nothing. so new york (new amsterdam) was so cheap, so inexpensive, that they got it for an apple, but it was a really big buy… hence the big apple.

@jacksonrice Inaccurate.

@jackson; creative but belongs under the rubric of “fiction.”

My Dad, a New Yorker, tells me that for a long time, New York was the apple growing state. New York City, being the largest city in the state, was therefore called the Big Apple.

Hmph. ztraffic posts what I did and gets lurve and I get nada?? :(

@AlenaD Hint: Many Flutherites don’t look at links. Try to include a text excerpt to whet their appetite. I’ll give lurve for first.