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"I'll take Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island too,

it's lovely going through the zoo.

It's very fancy on old Delaney Street, you know.

The subway charms us so,

when balmy breezes blow to and fro.

And tell me what street compares with Mott street in July,

Sweet push carts gently gliding by

The great big city's a wondrous toy,

just made for a girl and boy.

I'll turn Manhattan into

an isle of joy."

MANHATTAN by Richard Rogers (music) & Lorenz Hart (lyrics)

from the 1925 musical The Garrick Gaieties

"I happen to like New York,

I happen to like this town.

I like the city air, I like to drink of it,

The more I know New York the more I think of it.

I like the sight and the sound and even the stink of it.

I happen to like New York.

I like to go to Battery Park and watch those liners booming in.

I often ask myself, why should it be that they come so far across the sea.

I suppose it's because they all agree with me. They happen to like New York.

Last Sunday afternoon I took a trip to Hackensack,

But after I gave Hackensack the once over, I took the next train back.

I happen to like New York. I happen to love this burg.

And when I have to give the world a last farewell,

And the undertaker starts to ring my funeral bell,

I don't want to go to heaven, don't want to go to hell.

I happen to like New York. I happen to like New York."

--Cole Porter from the musical The New Yorkers

Legend has it that the expression, The Big Apple, was coined in the 1920s by jazz musicians who picked it up “from horseracing people in New Orleans who considered NY races and NY gigs to be where the money was.” Singer and bandleader Cab Calloway used the term to mean “the big town, the main stem, Harlem” in a book published in 1938. There was also a Big Apple night club in Harlem on West 135th Street and 7th Avenue. A Big Apple jitterbug style dance originated in the South and became very popular at the Harlem club, the Savoy Ballroom.

In the 70's the term “Big Apple” was revived by the New York City Convention and Visitors Bureau and became part of its huge I LOVE NEW YORK promotional campaign. I LOVE NEW YORK television commercials featured New York City locales with leading Broadway legends and stars singing an I LOVE NEW YORK theme song.

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