The Big Apple is a nickname of the city of New York, United States of America, although most New Yorkers do not use it frequently. It became popular in the 1920s thanks to John J. Fitz Gerald, sports journalist for the New York Morning Telegraph. Its current popularity is due to an advertising campaign of the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau.
¿The city that never sleeps, New York, is well known for its nickname: The Big Apple, the question is why? Is it shaped like an apple?
The city has many places and buildings recognized all over the world. For example, the statue of Liberty, located on the homonymous island, and the island of Ellis, which received millions of immigrants arriving in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Wall Street has been one of the world's leading financial centers since World War II and is the headquarters of the New York Stock Exchange. The city has also concentrated many of the tallest buildings in the world, including the Empire State Building and the twin towers of the World Trade Center, which were demolished in the attacks of September 11, 2001.
New York has more than 113 km² of parks and 22 kilometers of public beaches.55 Among its main green spaces are:
Central Park, of 3.41 km² (in a rectangle of 4 km x 800 m), is located in Manhattan. It is the most visited park in the United States, with millions of tourists a year, and appears in numerous films and television programs, which has also made it one of the most famous urban parks in the world. directed by Central Park Conservancy, a private non-profit company, which has a contract with the Department of Parks and Leisure of New York. Central Park borders on the north with 110th Street, on the west with Central Park West, on the south with 59th Street and on the east with Fifth Avenue. The stretches of these streets that pass around Central Park 'are usually known as Central Park North, Central Park South and Central Park West, respectively. Fifth Avenue, however, retains its name despite bordering the park on the east edge.The park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, who later created the Brooklyn's Prospect Park. While much of the park It seems natural, has several artificial lakes, two ice skating rinks, and grass areas used for various sports activities.
The metropolitan area is home to the largest Jewish community outside of Israel. In fact, the Jewish population of Tel Aviv is outnumbered by that of New York. About 12% of New Yorkers are Jewish or of Jewish descent, and the city also houses an important population of Indian origin, and the largest black community of any city in the country.
New York City is a global link for international trade and business, being one of the nerve centers of the global economy (along with Paris, London and Tokyo.) The city is one of the main financial centers (between the others, we find the Swiss bank UBS with its division Wealth Management Americas), insurers, real estate, media and arts of the United States. Its metropolitan area has a gross metropolitan product (an index similar to GDP but located in an urban area) of 952.6 billion dollars in 2005, the largest regional economy in the United States. The economy of the city accounts for most of the economic activity of the states of New York and New Jersey.
Baseball is the most popular sport among its inhabitants. There have been fourteen World Series disputed between local teams that are usually called the Metro Series. New York is one of the five metropolitan areas in the United States (the others are Chicago, Washington-Baltimore, Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area) that has two baseball teams. The two teams that are currently in Major League Baseball are the New York Yankees and the New York Mets, which maintain a rivalry possibly comparable with that between the Yankees and the Boston Red Sox. The Yankees have won 27 titles, while the Mets won twice. The city was also home to the New York Giants (now the San Francisco Giants) and the Brooklyn Dodgers (now known as the Los Angeles Dodgers). Both teams moved to California in 1958. There are also two teams in the minor leagues, the Staten Island Yankees and the Brooklyn Cyclones.