Knickerbocker Explained

Knickerbocker or Knickerbockers may also refer to:

People

• Knickerbocker (surname), including a list of people with the surname, and an explanation of the term's 19th-century popularity

Groups

• Knickerbockers, an imagined New York aristocracy said to descend from the Dutch colony of New Netherland; invented by Washington Irving in A History of New York

Writers

• Knickerbocker Group, consisting of Washington Irving and other frequent contributors to The Knickerbocker literary magazine
• Cholly Knickerbocker, a pseudonym used by a series of society columnists in the New York American and the New York Journal-American
• Diedrich Knickerbocker, a pseudonym of Washington Irving
• Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker, American writer and journalist
• Suzy Knickerbocker, a pseudonym of columnist Aileen Mehle

Historical events

• Knickerbocker Crisis, a financial crisis in the United States in 1907
• Knickerbocker storm, a 1922 blizzard
• Knickerbocker Case, a 1940s investigation of antisemitism at the City College of New York

Arts and media

Film, television, and theatre

• Knickerbocker Holiday, a 1938 musical by Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson
• The Knick, an American television drama series at the Knickerbocker Hospital
• The Knickerbocker Buckaroo, a 1919 American silent film starring Douglas Fairbanks

Music

• The Knickerbockers, an American music group best known for their 1965 hit "Lies"
• The Knickerbockers, an alias of Ben Selvin and His Orchestra
• "Knickerbocker", a 2008 song by Fujiya & Miyagi
• "Hey, Mr. Knickerbocker", a children's song popularized on Barney & Friends

Publications

• The Knickerbocker or New-York Monthly Magazine (1833–1865), a literary magazine founded by Charles Fenno Hoffman
• The Knickerbocker Gang, a series of children's books by Austrian writer Thomas Brezina, and a TV series based on the books
• Knickerbocker News, a newspaper in Albany, New York published between 1843 and 1988

Buildings and infrastructure

New York

• Knickerbocker Avenue (BMT Myrtle Avenue Line), a New York City subway station
• Knickerbocker Field Club, a tennis clubhouse in Flatbush, Brooklyn
• Knickerbocker and Arnink Garages, two stone buildings on Hudson Avenue in Albany, New York
• Knickerbocker Mansion, Schaghticoke, Rensselaer County, New York
• Knickerbocker Theatre (Broadway)
• Knickerbocker Hospital, Harlem, New York, closed in 1979
• The Knickerbocker Hotel (Manhattan), New York City
• Knickerbocker Village, a housing project in New York City
• United States Post Office–Knickerbocker Station, a post office in New York City
• Times Union Center, formerly the Knickerbocker Arena, Albany, New York

Elsewhere

• Knickerbocker (Spokane, Washington), a building
• Knickerbocker Bicycle Bridge, a bridge across the Willamette River in Eugene, Oregon
• Knickerbocker Theatre (Washington, D.C.)
• Knickerbocker Hotel (Los Angeles), now Hollywood Knickerbocker Apartments
• Knickerbocker Hotel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), also known as Knickerbocker on the Lake
• Knickerbocker Apartments (Kansas City, Missouri), demolished in 2020

Organizations

• Knickerbocker Club, a private male-only social club in New York City
• Knickerbocker Greys, an afterschool program in New York City
• Knickerbocker Ice Company, based in New York State during the 19th century
• Knickerbocker News, a newspaper in Albany, New York published between 1843 and 1988
• Knickerbocker Press, a division of publisher G. P. Putnam's Sons
• Knickerbocker Sailing Association, a gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender sailing club in New York City
• Knickerbocker Trust Company, a bank whose failure triggered the Panic of 1907
• Knickerbocker Yacht Club, a defunct yacht club in Port Washington, New York
• SKDKnickerbocker, a public affairs and consulting firm

Sport

Sports teams

• Knickerbocker Athletic Club football team, an early-20th-century American football team
• New York Knickerbockers, one of the first baseball teams
• New York Knicks (short for "Knickerbockers"), a National Basketball Association team
• Westchester Knicks, a minor league basketball affiliate of the New York Knicks
• Warwickshire Knickerbockers, a cricket team that participated in first game of cricket in France

Other uses in sport

• Knickerbocker Rules, early rules of American baseball
• Knickerbocker Stakes, a horse race at Belmont Park

Other uses

• Knickerbockers (clothing), baggy knee trousers
• , a US Navy tug, minesweeper, and dispatch ship in commission from 1917 to 1919
• Knickerbocker glory, a layered ice cream sundae from the United States and United Kingdom

• Knickerbocker (Zamboanga), an ice cream dessert with various fresh fruits from the Philippines
• Knickerbocker, a New York Central train from St. Louis to New York City and Boston
• Knickerbocker, Texas

See also

• Knickers, underwear worn by women