Which city is also known as 'The Big Apple'?
"Andrew Cuomo, the current Governor of New York, went to Israel to show support for the country during Operation Protective Edge. As part of his trip, Cuomo met with students from NY studying in Israel, at Big Apple Pizza. Big Apple Pizza Big Apple Pizza () is an Israeli pizza chain with 11 branches throughout Israel, founded in 1986. Big Apple Pizza was founded in 1986 by Haim Kedem, in the Jerusalem mall, Dorot Rishonim. Kedem had spent many years in New York City and upon moving to Israel decided to open a pizza shop to bring the piece of"
"and an office tower. The name ""Iso Omena"" comes from the nickname ""The Big Apple"" of New York City, USA. Iso Omena can be reached by all buses travelling along Länsiväylä past Matinkylä, and by buses passing over Piispansilta. Starting from autumn 2017, the shopping centre will also be reached by the metro. The Matinkylä metro station is located directly under the southern part of Iso Omena. Iso Omena Iso Omena (Finnish for ""Big Apple"") is a shopping centre in Matinkylä, Espoo, Finland, opened on September 24, 2001. The construction of Iso Omena aimed to take heed of the wishes"
"Manhattan, Kansas Manhattan is a city in northeastern Kansas in the United States at the junction of the Kansas River and Big Blue River. It is the county seat of Riley County, although it extends into Pottawatomie County. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 52,281. The city was founded by settlers from the New England Emigrant Aid Company as a Free-State town in the 1850s, during the Bleeding Kansas era. Nicknamed ""The Little Apple"" as a play on New York City's ""Big Apple"", Manhattan is best known as the home of Kansas State University and has a"
"York City, Newark, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C., but also interior cities such as Pittsburgh, Rochester, Albany, and Buffalo. New York City, with its skyscrapers, subways, and headquarters of the United Nations, emerged in the 20th century as an icon of modernity and American economic and cultural power. By the 21st century, the coastal areas of the Mid-Atlantic were thoroughly urbanized. The Northeast Corridor and Interstate 95 link an almost contiguous sprawl of suburbs and large and small cities, forming the Mid-Atlantic portion of the Northeast megalopolis, one of the world's most important concentrations of finance, media, communications, education, medicine,"
"complimentary miniature golf course, and other amenities. Big Apple (Colborne, Ontario) The Big Apple is a bakery, restaurant and roadside attraction in the community of Colborne, part of the municipality of Cramahe, Northumberland County in Central Ontario, Canada, a driving distance of approximately eastward from downtown Toronto. It is located on the south side of Ontario Highway 401 at interchange 497 (Northumberland County Road 25/Percy Street) and is easily recognizable from the highway by its huge apple-shaped structure, claimed to be the world's largest. With a height of and diameter of , the Big Apple features an observation deck. The"
"and one administrative regency. Jakarta is nicknamed the Big Durian, the thorny strongly-odored fruit native to the region, as the city is seen as the Indonesian equivalent of New York (Big Apple). Jakarta is an alpha world city and is the seat of the ASEAN secretariat, making it an important city for international diplomacy. Important financial institutions such as Bank of Indonesia, Indonesia Stock Exchange, and corporate headquarters of numerous Indonesian companies and multinational corporations are located in the city. As of 2017, the city is home for six Forbes Global 2000, two Fortune 500 and four Unicorn companies ."
"Los Angeles Los Angeles (; ), officially the City of Los Angeles and known colloquially by its initials L.A., is the most-populous city in California. It is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City, and the largest and most populous city in the Western United States. With an estimated population of four million, Los Angeles is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. Nicknamed the ""City of Angels"" partly because of its name's Spanish meaning, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, Hollywood and the entertainment industry, and sprawling metropolis."
"and the Saint Lawrence Seaway. The Chicago metropolitan area (also called ""Chicagoland"") has one of the world's largest and most diverse economies. The Chicago metro area is the fourth largest city economy globally, after the metro areas of Tokyo, New York City, and Los Angeles, and ranking ahead of London and Paris. At 9.8 million people, the Chicago metropolitan area will become the Great Lakes region's first mega-city and the United States' third megacity. Globally, a megacity is defined as a city with a Combined Statistical Area (CSA) metro population of at least ten million people. The Great Lakes Megalopolis"
"Wenatchee River, Lake Wenatchee and the Wenatchee National Forest. Wenatchee is referred to as the ""Apple Capital of the World"" due to the valley's many orchards. The city is also sometimes referred to as the ""Buckle of the Power Belt of the Great Northwest"". The ""Power Belt of the Great Northwest"" is a metaphor for the series of hydroelectric dams on the Columbia River. Rock Island Dam is located nearest to the middle of this ""belt"", and so was labeled the ""Buckle"". This saying is printed at the top of every issue of Wenatchee's newspaper, the ""Wenatchee World"", but is"
"Big Apple (Colborne, Ontario) The Big Apple is a bakery, restaurant and roadside attraction in the community of Colborne, part of the municipality of Cramahe, Northumberland County in Central Ontario, Canada, a driving distance of approximately eastward from downtown Toronto. It is located on the south side of Ontario Highway 401 at interchange 497 (Northumberland County Road 25/Percy Street) and is easily recognizable from the highway by its huge apple-shaped structure, claimed to be the world's largest. With a height of and diameter of , the Big Apple features an observation deck. The site also features a petting zoo, a"
"New York metropolitan area The New York metropolitan area, also referred to as the Tri-State Area, is the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass, at . The metropolitan area includes New York City (the most populous city in the United States), Long Island, and the Mid and Lower Hudson Valley in the state of New York; the five largest cities in New Jersey: Newark, Jersey City, Paterson, Elizabeth, and Edison, and their vicinities; six of the seven largest cities in Connecticut: Bridgeport, New Haven, Stamford, Waterbury, Norwalk, and Danbury, and their vicinities. The New York metropolitan area"
"of a bay, similar to Jersey City and Manhattan. A Native American tribe sold Metropolis Island to the first European settlers in 1644, similar to the history of New York City, in which Native Americans sold Manhattan Island to Dutch settlers in 1626. Over the years, Metropolis' features have greatly changed in the comics; however, Metropolis is always presented as being a global city. It is often referred to as ""The Big Apricot"" just as New York City is nicknamed ""The Big Apple."" It is commonly portrayed as having an Art Deco style of architecture, much like New York City."
"New York City The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York (NY), is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2017 population of 8,622,698 distributed over a land area of about , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States. Located at the southern tip of the state of New York, the city is the center of the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass and one of the world's most populous megacities, with an"
"9 of the 50 biggest US cities, both the most of any megaregion in the country. On a global scale, the megapolitan area would contain three of the fifty largest cities in the Americas. The largest cities in descending order are: Los Angeles, San Diego, Tijuana, San Jose, San Francisco, Mexicali, Las Vegas, Fresno, Sacramento, Long Beach, Oakland, Bakersfield, Anaheim, and Santa Ana. California's economy as a whole is the largest of any state in the United States and is the fourth largest economy in the world. The Northern California megaregion is home to the Silicon Valley with major corporations"
"Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Philadelphia, Washington, Miami, Atlanta, and Boston, with New York City being the largest. The smallest is Carson City, Nevada. The capital city, Kabul, has grown to become the country's sole metropolis, and is the only city with more than one million people. In the People's Republic of Bangladesh, there are eleven metropolitan areas: Dhaka North, Dhaka South, Gazipur, Chittagong, Rajshahi, Khulna, Sylhet, Barisal, and Rangpur. Lands are highly priced and residents are considered to have a better urban lifestyle. Special police departments are allotted for the metropolitan cities, and there are city corporations for which mayors"
"Wisconsin, all of which are also part of the Great Lakes region. The West North Central Division includes Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska, and South Dakota, several of which are located, at least partly, within the Great Plains region. Chicago is the most populous city in the American Midwest and the third most populous in the entire country. Other large Midwestern cities include (in order by population): Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit, Milwaukee, Kansas City, Omaha, Minneapolis, Wichita, Cleveland, St. Louis, St. Paul, Cincinnati, Madison, and Des Moines. Chicago and its suburbs form the largest metropolitan statistical area with 9.9"
"commented that ""We always did the best we could to imitate the steps we saw. But we called it the Little Apple. We didn't feel like we should copy the Big Apple, so we called it that."" During the summer of 1937, the students from the University of South Carolina started dancing the Big Apple at the Pavilion in Myrtle Beach. Betty Wood (née Henderson), a dancer who helped revive the Big Apple in the 1990s, first saw the dance there, and six months later she won a dance contest and become nicknamed ""Big Apple Betty."" The news of the"
"often proudly used to reference the city's significance as an international center of commerce, trade, and more recently, music, art, and a rapidly growing population center that 'never seems to rest'. Houston is sometimes compared to larger, older cities and pop-cultural centers, sometimes being referred to as the ""New York' or 'L.A' of the South"", and is actually the fourth largest city in the United States, in terms of population size. The term 'Hustle-Town' was heavily popularized by Houston rapper SPM, following the release of ""'Hustle-Town""' in 1998, directly utilizing the term in the name of the song, which was"
"United States after the 1940s, while Philadelphia is now the fifth largest city after New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston. Philadelphia anchors the sixth-largest metropolitan area in the country, while Pittsburgh is the center of the twenty-second largest metro area in the country. The growth of the Lehigh Valley has made it one of the seventy most populous metro areas in the country, while Pennsylvania also has six other metro areas among the top 200 most populous American metro areas. Philadelphia forms part of the Northeast megalopolis and is associated with the Northeastern United States, while Pittsburgh is part"
"New York City; it is more than three times the size of Buffalo, which has long been the state's second-largest city. It would be the 18th-largest city in the country, behind Charlotte, North Carolina and ahead of Seattle, Washington. Hempstead is also the most populous municipality in the New York metropolitan area outside New York City. Hofstra University's main campus is located in Hempstead. The town was first settled around 1644 following the establishment of a treaty between English colonists, John Carman and Robert Fordham, and the Lenape Indians in 1643. Although the settlers were from the English colony of"
"as the Triple Cities and is made up of Binghamton, Johnson City, and Endicott, New York, the latter two of which are technically villages. The area is also sometimes called the ""Greater Binghamton Area"" as the city of Binghamton is the largest and most prominent of the three, with a population greater than the other two combined, and a much larger geographical area. The three incorporated areas are tightly squeezed together and can seem like a single large, albeit spread out, city. They are economically integrated, though they retain their political identities. For example, many people living in Binghamton go"
"left the business to his two sons, who still run the business. The inside of all the Big Apple Pizza locations are set up to remind patrons of the NYC experience. The tables are set up as if to be a NYC café, with pictures of NYC all around. Additionally they have a large collection of American license plates on their walls. , there were 11 branches of Big Apple Pizza: All of Big Apple Pizza’s locations throughout Israel are kosher, including those in Eilat which is mostly secular. The six Jerusalem locations are Rabbanut Yerushalayim Mehadrin. In August 2014,"
"worldwide, promoting the exchange of ideas and innovation between their citizenry and policymakers. New York's ""historic sister cities"" are denoted below by the year they joined New York City's partnership network. New York City The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York (NY), is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2017 population of 8,622,698 distributed over a land area of about , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States. Located at the southern tip of the state of New York,"
"Shakespeare's ""Romeo and Juliet"" set by Zangwill in New York City in 1908. The iconic Flatiron Building is said to have been the source of the phrase ""23 skidoo"" or scram, from what cops would shout at men who tried to get glimpses of women's dresses being blown up by the winds created by the triangular building. The ""Big Apple"" dates back to the 1920s, when a reporter heard the term used by New Orleans stablehands to refer to New York City's horse racetracks and named his racing column ""Around The Big Apple."" Jazz musicians adopted the term to refer"
"area urban planners call the Great Lakes Megalopolis, which has an estimated 59 million people. Chicago is emerging as the third megacity in the United States, after the New York City and Los Angeles metropolitan areas, with a metro population approaching ten million. Cities along the Great Lakes have access to the Atlantic Ocean through the St. Lawrence Seaway, making them international ports. The Palaeozoic strata, are but parts of a great area of similar strata hundreds of feet in thickness. These strata decline gently southward from the great upland of the Laurentian Highlands of eastern Canada. The visible upland"
"The New York City areas of Harlem (""Mecca"") and Brooklyn (""Medina"") were named after notable Islamic cities by members of the organization. Other areas include Detroit (""D-Mecca""), New Jersey (""New Jerusalem""), Chicago (""C-Medina""), Queens (""the Desert""), Connecticut (""New Heaven""), St. Louis (""Saudi""), Seattle (""Morocco""), New Rochelle (""Now Rule""), and Dallas (""Sudan""). The Nation of Gods and Earths teaches that black people are the original people of the planet Earth, and therefore they are the fathers (""Gods"") and mothers (""Earths"") of civilization. The Nation teaches that Supreme Mathematics and Supreme Alphabet, a set of principles created by Allah the Father, is"
"Motors, Google, IBM, Intel, Oracle Corporation, Paypal, Texas Instruments, and Whole Foods Market. Dell's worldwide headquarters is located in nearby Round Rock, a suburb of Austin. Residents of Austin are known as Austinites. They include a diverse mix of government employees, college students, musicians, high-tech workers, blue-collar workers, and a vibrant LGBT community. The city's official slogan promotes Austin as ""The Live Music Capital of the World"", a reference to the city's many musicians and live music venues, as well as the long-running PBS TV concert series ""Austin City Limits"". The city also adopted ""Silicon Hills"" as a nickname in"
"to a faster growth rate. But because Southern California is not yet a recognized Combined Statistical Area by the United States Office of Management and Budget, the New York Tri-State Area officially remains the nation's largest as of now. The traditionally separate metropolitan areas of Baltimore and Washington, D.C. have shared suburbs and a continuous urbanization between the two central cities (Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area). The largest conurbation between the United States and Mexico, San Diego–Tijuana includes the two countries' busiest border crossing and a shared economy. Three large cities, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Arlington, make up this area. Each city"
"Barry Popik Barry Popik (born 1961) is an American etymologist who is recognized as an expert on the origins of the terms ""Big Apple"", ""Windy City"", and ""hot dog"". He is a consulting editor of the ""Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America"" and was described in ""The Wall Street Journal"" as ""the restless genius of American etymology"". Popik is a contributor-consultant to the ""Oxford English Dictionary"", ""Dictionary of American Regional English"", ""Historical Dictionary of American Slang"", and ""The Yale Book of Quotations"". Popik's theory on the etymology of Big Apple—that it was first popularized in the 1920s by"
"and in place with your right foot. Repeat this on the left side. Big Apple (dance) The Big Apple is both a partner dance and a circle dance that originated in the Afro-American community of the United States in the beginning of the 20th century. The exact origin of the Big Apple is unclear but one author suggests that the dance originated from the ""ring shout"", a group dance associated with religious observances that was founded before 1860 by African Americans on plantations in South Carolina and Georgia. The ring shout is described as a dance with ""counterclockwise circling and"
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"Memphis, Durham, Philadelphia, Houston and New Orleans, as well as New York (as a whole, i.e. not just Harlem), Baltimore, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Oakland, Miami, Charlotte, Cleveland, Dallas, and Joliet, Illinois. In the 1850's, the city of Chatham, Ontario was referred to as the ""Black Mecca of Canada"", as a final stop on the Underground Railroad. A museum in the city, the Black Mecca Museum, still bares this name. The small city was home to a number of black churches and business, with Black Canadians making up 1/3 of the city's population and controlling a significant portion of"
"Big Apple (dance) The Big Apple is both a partner dance and a circle dance that originated in the Afro-American community of the United States in the beginning of the 20th century. The exact origin of the Big Apple is unclear but one author suggests that the dance originated from the ""ring shout"", a group dance associated with religious observances that was founded before 1860 by African Americans on plantations in South Carolina and Georgia. The ring shout is described as a dance with ""counterclockwise circling and high arm gestures"" that resembled the Big Apple. It is still practiced today"