Nicknames for cities

Chicago is the Windy City; NYC is the Big Apple. What other cities have colorful nicknames like these?

Sheffield is, or more often was, called the Steel City. That originated in the days when Sheffield made the world's cutlery. The other UK city I know best - Birmingham, is known by local wags as the Celestial City. They are strong on irony down there.

Liverpool a.k.a. "City of cars on bricks"
London "the Smoke"
Manchester "too much smoke" (it does me fkin 'ead in man!)

steve-badger.net/nicknames.html

Edinburgh is my personal favorite with the nickname: Auld Reekie.

Derry/Londonderry in NI is known as 'stroke' city.

These are from "Slanguage: A Cool, Fresh, Phat, and Shagadelic Guide to all Kinds of Slang" By Mike Ellis (Hyperion, New York, 2000) and are in addition to the ones at
steve-badger.net/nicknames.html

ALABAMA
Birmingham - The Ham, Football Capital of the South.

ALASKA
Anchorage - Los Anchorage

ARIZONA
Tucson - Prune Valley, Medicare Acres, Geritol Junction

CALIFORNIA
Malibu - The Boo or Big Boo
Modest - Mo-Town
Los Angeles - Smell A, Hell A, Behind the Orange Curtain, Los Scandelous, La La Land, Illa
Sacramento - Sack of Tomatoes, Sacred Men's Toes, Sack Toe, Sock Town.
San Francisco - Frisco, San Fantastico, Bagdad by the Bay.

COLORADO
Denver - Queen City of the Plains, Dusty Old Cowtown.

FLORIDA
Gainesville -- G-ville, Hogtown.
Jacksonville - Jax, Actionville.
Miami - My Jummy

GEORGIA
Atlanta - Phatlanta, Hotlanta, Itlanta.

ILLINOIS
Chicago - Shytown, Chicagoland.
Springfield - Springpatch

INDIANA
Indianapolis - Nap Town

KENTUCKY
Louisville - Loo Ah Vull, Derby City

LOUISIANA
New Orleans - Gnaw Lynn's

MARYLAND
Baltimore - Ball Mer

MICHIGAN
Ann Arbor - A Squared

MINNEAPOLIS -- Paris of the Prairie, The Cleanest City in America

KANSAS CITY - Can Town, BBQ City, Home of Jazz, Kay See Em Oh, City of Fountains, Kay See Moe

NEBRASKA
Omaha - Big O

NEVADA
Las Vegas - Lost Wages

NEW YORK
Rochester - Rah Cha Cha, Rottenchester
Binghamton - Bingo Town, The Ham

NORTH CAROLINA
Raleigh - Raleighwood
Charlotte - Queen City

OHIO
Cincinnati - Porkopolis, Cincy, Sin City, Cinsinnasty, Sin Sin At A, The Natty.

COLUMBUS - Cowlumbus, Cols, Klums

OREGON
Eugene - The Emerald City
Portland - The Rose City, Stumptown, P Town, Port Town, P.O., Bridgetown, Rip Town, Puddle Town.

PENNSYLVANIA
Philadelphia - Philly, Illadelphia, Chilladelphia.
Pittsburgh - Pixburg, D'burg, Urn City, City of Champions.

TENNESSEE
Memphis - Birthplace of the Blues

TEXAS
Houston - H-Town, Clutch Town

UTAH
Salt Lake City -- SLU, Behind the Zion Curtain

WASHINGTON
Spokane - Lilac City.
Seattle - Seatown, Lattetown

WISCONSIN
Milwaukee - Brew City, M'Wacky, Mocky.

Limerick, near where I live in Ireland, is known as Stab City because only a few wealthy criminals can afford guns. Galway is the City of the Tribes. Dublin is, accurately but unimaginatively, Dirty Dublin, but the Dubs have a poetic sense of humour when it comes to naming local landmarks. The river Liffey is the Sniffy Liffey. A large sculpture representing Anna Livia, the female personification of the Liffey, reclining in a fountain with surging water is The Floosie in the Jacuzi (sp?), and a life-sized bronze casting of a well endowed Molly Malone wheeling her wheel barrow is The Tart with the Cart. Some others are The Crank on the Bank (Irish poet seated beside the Grand Canal) and the Time in the Slime (millenium count-down clock in the Liffey).