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Apr 22, 2009 12:58 pm US/Eastern

An Official Apple For The Big Apple?

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Click to enlarge 1 of 1: Ripe Apples. (File)
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Legend has it that green apples were first grown in the Big Apple. Now there's a push to make them the official New York City fruit.

Councilman James Gennaro says he'll introduce a resolution to celebrate the Newtown Pippin apple as the city's apple.

Newtown Pippins are said to originate in Newtown -- now called Elmhurst, Queens -- around the year 1730.

Gennaro says New Yorkers love all apples -- but the world should know the Newtown Pippin as New York City's own.