History Main / TheBigRottenApple

* ''New York's Not My Home'' by Jim Croce describes New York as a wretched, depressing place.
** Also, ''Box no. 10'' (Jim Croce obviously wasn't overly enamored with the city).

-->--''Shattered'', TheRollingStones.

* ''Shattered'' by TheRollingStones (quoted at the top).

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->''Go ahead, bite the Big Apple. Don't mind the maggots.''

Basically, CityNoir + BigApplesauce = TheBigRottenApple.

NewYorkCity is depicted as a dysfunctional, crime-plagued, vermin-infested, smog-choked, polluted, grimy, sleazy, seedy, corrupt, racially-divided, poverty-ridden, morally-and-financially-bankrupt WretchedHive filled with ApatheticCitizens, hostile [[{{Jerkass}} Jerkasses]], [[AxCrazy violent psychotics]], drug addicts, deviants, a crumbling infrastructure, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking not enough parking spots]].

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* ''TaxiDriver'': Travis Bickle, a night taxi driver, sees the city as this.

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* Made fun of in the beginning of {{Mostly Harmless}}, which proceeds to outline all the ways in which New York is a terrible place to live if you care about your quality of life.
* In ''{{Literature/Animorphs}} The Familiar'', Jake wakes up in a dystopian, CrapsackWorld version of New York where all of humanity has been enslaved by the Yeerks and the only free people are an underground group of rebels.

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* The BBC America series ''Copper'' is set in the same time and place as the film, ''GangsOfNewYork'', so it deals with the same rotten apple.

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* GrandTheftAutoIII and GrandTheftAutoIV are both set in Liberty City, an [[NoCommunitiesWereHarmed obvious imitation]] of New York.

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* ''Film/JoesApartment''. The eponymous hero gets mugged three times in a row. ..Before leaving ''the bus station''.

* ''Box no. 10''. Jim Croche wasn't overly enamored with the place...

* ''JoesApartment''. The eponymous hero gets mugged three times in a row. ..Before leaving ''the bus station''.

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* BillyJoel's song ''Miami 2017'' takes it to its logical conclusion...

* GrandTheftAutoIII and GrandTheftAuto IV are both set in Liberty City, an [[NoCommunitiesWereHarmed obvious imitation]] of New York.

See also the PlaceWorthThanDeath section for NewYork.

* Trope is PlayedForLaughs in ''LastActionHero'' where, after two people are shot dead in the middle of a street in full view of numerous bystanders, one of the shooters shouts to the rooftops that he did it and wants to confess only to be met with [[ApatheticCitizens apathy by the crowd]] [[SomebodyElsesProblem and one person yelling at him to shut up]].

* In a column he did in retaliation for a NewYorkTimes piece on Miami being a crime-ridden druglord paradise, DaveBarry tells of researchers from New York asking people why people didn't like New Yorkers and being told everyone was so rude. "[[CrowningMomentOfFunny Then the researchers spat on them]]."

NewYorkCity is depicted as a dysfunctional, crime-plagued, vermin-infested, smog-choked, polluted, grimy, sleazy, seedy, corrupt, racially-divided, poverty-ridden, financially-bankrupt WretchedHive filled with ApatheticCitizens, hostile [[{{Jerkass}} Jerkasses]], [[AxCrazy violent psychotics]], drug addicts, deviants, a crumbling infrastructure, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking not enough parking spots]].

* The BBCAmerica series ''Copper'' is set in the same time and place as the film, ''GangsOfNewYork'', so it deals with the same rotten apple.

->''All the animals come out at night - whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.''

* MadMagazine in the seventies and eighties liked to make use of this.

* TheSimpsons: In "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" episode, Homer tells about a previous visit to New York during the 70s when this trope was in full force.

NewYorkCity is depicted as a dysfunctional, crime-plagued, vermin-infested, smog-choked, polluted, grimy, sleazy, seedy, corrupt, racially-divided, poverty-ridden, financially-bankrupt WretchedHive filled with ApatheticCitizens, hostile [[{{Jerkass}} Jerkasses]], [[AxCrazy violent psychotics]], drug addicts, deviants, a crumbling infrastructure, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking not enough parking spots]]. TheBigRottenApple trope can come into play in any story set during the city's existence but you'll most often see it in stories set in New York in the years before Rudy Giuliani became mayor (roughly the period lasting from the early 1960s to the early 1990s).

Basically, CityNoir + BigApplesauce = TheBigRottenApple. NewYorkCity is depicted as a dysfunctional, crime-plagued, vermin-infested, smog-choked, polluted, grimy, sleazy, seedy, corrupt, racially-divided, poverty-ridden, financially-bankrupt WretchedHive filled with ApatheticCitizens, hostile [[{{Jerkass}} Jerkasses]], [[AxCrazy violent psychotics]], drug addicts, deviants, a crumbling infrastructure, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking not enough parking spots]]. TheBigRottenApple trope can come into play in any story set during the city's existence but you'll most often see it in stories set in New York in the years before Rudy Giuliani became mayor (roughly the period lasting from the early 1960s to the early 1990s).

* TheSimpsons: In "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" episode, Homer tells about a previous visit to New York during the 70s when this trope was in full force.

Basically, CityNoir + BigApplesauce = TheBigRottenApple. NewYorkCity is depicted as a dysfunctional, crime-plagued, vermin-infested, smog-choked, polluted, grimy, sleazy, seedy, corrupt, racially-divided, poverty-ridden, financially-bankrupt WretchedHive filled with ApatheticCitizens, hostile [[{{Jerkass}} Jerkasses]], [[AxCrazy violent psychotics]], drug addicts, deviants, a crumbling infrastructure, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking not enough parking spots]]. TheBigRottenApple trope can come into play in any story set during the city's existence but you'll most often see it in stories set in New York in the years before Rudy Giuliani became mayor--roughly the period lasting from the early 1960s to the early 1990s.