Happiness and The Big Apple

From this week's New York Magazine:
Darrin McMahon, the author of Happiness: A History, shrewdly points out that the Big Apple is a perfect moniker for the city: “The apple is the cause of the fall of human happiness,” he says. “It’s the symbol of that desire for something more. Even though paradise was paradise, they were still restless.”
http://newyorkmetro.com/news/features/17573/index3.html