The City That Never Sleeps (nickname)

The City That Never Sleeps is a ubiquitously used nickname and advertising slogan for New York City. Photographer Jacob Riis describes The Bowery as never sleeping in his 1898 book Out of Mulberry Street: Stories of Tenement Life in New York City. A newspaper article in Indiana's Fort Wayne Daily (6 September 1912) first nicknamed New York City as a whole as "The city that never sleeps.".^[1] It has also been applied to several other cities around the world.