Which came first, the apple or the nickname?
Mar 12, 2020
2 minutes
Why is New York known as the Empire State? A reader wrote in with an intriguing speculation: Might the nickname be a reference not to wealth and power, but to a humble fruit? There is a variety of apple called “Empire,” after all, and New York
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