Barry Popik

Popik is a consulting editor of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America[citation needed] and was described in The Wall Street Journal as "the restless genius of American etymology".

[citation needed] He was educated at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in Troy, New York, graduating with a B.S.

[citation needed] Popik contributed his independent research to the 2011 edition[2] of Professor Gerald Cohen's original 1991 monograph[3] on the etymology of "Big Apple" — that it was first popularized in the 1920s by sports writer John J. Fitz Gerald — which led to the New York City street corner where Fitz Gerald lived being renamed "Big Apple Corner" in 1997.

[citation needed] Popik was a law judge with the Parking Violations Bureau of the city's Department of Finance.

[citation needed] Popik met his wife Angie Garcia, a political strategist, while running for Manhattan Borough president in 2005.