Baghdad-on-the-Hudson

[Laurence Horn]

>Date:    Wed, 23 Jul 2003 21:33:20 -0400
>From:    Bapopik at AOL.COM
>Subject: Baghdad-on-the-Hudson (NY Sun, 1903?)
>
>    "Baghdad-on-the-Hudson" was O. Henry's nickname for New York City.
>It's not used much now in 2003.  (Can't figure out why.)  The
>nickname/story appeared in THE FOUR MILLION (1906).

Then there's "Baghdad-by-the-Bay" for San Francisco, which may or may
not have preceded Herb Caen's columns for the S. F. Chronicle.
Presumably that was based on the New York moniker, and one would
guess it's another victim of taboo avoidance.

Larry