How awesome is New York? So awesome that it has 98 nicknames. Wow, that's so awesome! I don't know about you, but whenever I leave the city, I'm amazed at how fat and poorly dressed the rest of the country is, and I think to myself, I can't wait to be back in "The Greatest All-Year Round Vacation City." Or "The Modern Gomorrah." Or "The University of Telephony." Full list after the jump via The Big Apple. Add your own!
1. America's Leading Tourist Resort 2. America's Mecca 3. Father Knickerbocker (referring to the type of trousers worn by the early Dutch settlers) 4. Gotham (name given to New York City by Washington Irving in the Salmagundi Papers, 1807) 5. The Bablyonian Bedlam (allusion to the confusion of tongues at Babel, described in Genesis XI) 6. The Bagdad of the Subway 7. The Bagdad on the Hudson 8. The Banking Center of the World 9. The Big Apple 10. The Big Burg 11. The Big City 12. The Big Town 13. The Biggest Gateway to Immigrants 14. The Burg 15. The Business Capital of the Nation 16. The Business Capital of the World 17. The Capital of Finance 18. The Capital of the World 19. The Center of the World (Trygve Lie, first United Nations general secretary, on Sept. 7, 1962) 20. The City 21. The City at the Crossroads of High Diplomacy 22. The City of Cities (book by Hulbert Foother) 23. The City of Friendly People 24. The City of Golden Dreams 25. The City of Islands (the borough of Manhattan and numerous other small islands within the city limits) 26. The City of Light 27. The City of Orchestras (music center and 'Tin Pan Alley") 28. The City of Skyscrapers (the tallest building in the world; the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, 60 Wall Tower, etc.) 29. The City of Superlatives 30. The City of the World 31. The City of Towers 32. The City that Belongs to the World 33. The City that Never Sleeps 34. The City with Everything 35. The Cleanest Big City in the World 36. The Coliseum City 37. The Commercial Capital of America 38. The Commercial Emporium 39. The Corporate Capital of America 40. The Crossroads of the World 41. The Cuisine Capital of the World 42. The Cultural Capital of America 43. The Cultural Center of the Nation 44. The Cultural City 45. The Empire City 46. The Entertainment Capital of the World 47. The Fashion Capital of the World 48. The Fear City 49. The Financial Capital of the World 50. The Financial Hub 51. The First City of the World (the most populated city in the United States, approximately 8 million) 52. The Friendly City 53. The Frog and Toe 54. The Front Office of American Business 55. The Fun City 56. The Fun City on the Hudson 57. The Greatest All-Year Round Vacation City 58. The Greatest Industrial Center in the World 59. The Headquarters of World Banking 60. The Hong Kong of the Hudson 61. The Host of the World 62. The Hub City of the World 63. The Hub of Transport 64. The Information City 65. The Land of Surprising Contrasts 66. The Mecca for Young Adults 67. The Media City 68. The Melting Pot (drama by Israel Zangwill, 1908) 69. The Metropolis 70. The Metropolis of a Continent 71. The Metropolis of America 72. The Metropolitan City 73. The Mighty Manhattan 74. The Modern Gomorrah (one of the cities if the plains destroyed by fire and bromstone because of wickedness, mentioned in the Old Testament) 75. The Money Town 76. The Most Colorful Exciting City in the World 77. The Movie-Making City 78. The Nation's First City 79. The Nation's Greatest City 80. The Nation's Largest Communications Center 81. The Nation's Largest Port 82. The Port of Many Ports 83. The Printing Capital of the World 84. The Restaurant City 85. The Science City 86. The Seat of Empire (named in 1784 by George Washington) 87. The Super City 88. The University of Telephony 89. The Vacation City 90. The Wonder City 91. The Wonder City of the World 92. The Wonderful Town 93. The World Capital of Fashion 94. The World's Capital City 95. The World's Fair City 96. The World's Financial Capital 97. The World's Metropolis 98. The World's Most Exciting All Year Round Vacation Center