The nickname “The Big Apple” for New York was first used in this year.
- 1865
- 1888
- 1909
- 1921
1909. The term was used in Edward Martin’s “Wayfarer in New York” in the context of the mid-west thinking “the big apple” i.e. New York, gets too much of “the national sap.”
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