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The Big Apple
 The phrase "The Big Apple" referring to New York City was first used in a 1909 book, The Wayfarer in New York edited by Edward S. Martin. In a metaphor explaining the sentiment in the Midwest that the city receives more than a fair share of the nation's wealth, he explains: " 'New York [was] merely one of the fruits of that great tree whose roots go down in the Mississippi Valley, and whose branches spread from one ocean to the other…[But] the big apple [New York] gets a disproportionate share of the national sap.' " (Irving Lewis Allen, City in Slang [Oxford University Press, 1995], p. 62)...so I am told.


A friend took a plane flight over the city.  He shared the pictures below:

Statue of Liberty from a private plane.

This is a view of the world trade center from a private plane.

A view of part of the city.