[net.wanted] Why is NY called Big Apple?

hlb@loral.UUCP () (08/21/84)

Can anyone explain why New York is referred to as the Big Apple?
What does this term actually mean and what is its significance to
this city?

spoo@utcsrgv.UUCP (Suk Lee) (08/23/84)

Because its got a rotten core?  :-|


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avsdT:roberts@avsdS.UUCP (08/23/84)

  
  
  
  
Some of the districts in New York city have police mounted on
horse back.  This, at one time was about all the mobile police
rode on.  Of course there were lots of droppings laying
around, if you get the drift (no pun intended).  These 
were/are called road apples.  As New York grew in population
so did the the cities police services, creating more
droppings in more of the city more of the time.  Eventually
there was so many people and so much droppings that every
thing and everybody smelled the same.  Hence the name:
           THE BIG APPLE