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Andrew Yang landed the endorsement of Rep. Grace Meng today, boosting his bid to be New York City’s first Asian American mayor at an auspicious time for the city’s Asian community.
“I will work my heart out to make sure that he is elected,” Meng, who represents Queens, said at an endorsement event in Flushing. Meng will be a co-chair of Yang’s mayoral campaign, joining Rep. Ritchie Torres and Martin Luther King III.
Meng is the first Asian American elected to Congress from New York and the highest-ranking Asian official in the city.
“I would be honored to follow in her footsteps as the first Asian American mayor in the history of our great city. I will be a mayor for all New Yorkers, and I think New Yorkers sense that,” Yang said. “But I will say that it will give me a special degree of pride to help make Asian Americans in our city feel like we are part of the fabric of this city,” he said, adding that the community has been treated as a
On May 3, 1921, New York City reporter John J. Fitz Gerald used the term in print for the first time in print, making Monday the 100th anniversary of the now-ubiquitous nickname for the five boroughs, according to a pair of dogged researchers.
The birth of the Big Apple: First mention of New York’s enduring nickname dates back 100 years Larry McShane, New York Daily News
Back in 1921, when Babe Ruth was in right field for the Yankees and Mayor John Hylan in City Hall, a horse-racing writer for the New York Morning Telegraph overheard a Louisiana chat between two Black stablehands.
The pair mentioned an upcoming trip from New Orleans to New York the Big Apple, as they called it.
On May 3, 1921, cub reporter John J. Fitz Gerald used the term in print for the first time, making Monday the 100th anniversary of the now-ubiquitous nickname for the five boroughs, according to a pair of dogged researchers.
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