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A person walking alone on a sidewalk in New York City on a rainy night.
April 17, 2026 | A Walk in the Rain
A lone figure walks through Manhattan on a rainy night. A newspaper article in Indiana's Fort Wayne Daily first dubbed New York City as "The City That Never Sleeps" in September 1912. It earned another nickname in the 1920s when New York sportswriter John J. Fitz Gerald visited New Orleans on assignment and overheard stablehands refer to New York City's horse racing courses as "The Big Apple." He named his own column "Around The Big Apple"—although the nickname didn't quite take off until it became part of a 1970s tourism campaign.
