Gotham
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Gotham (gŏth´əm) is a a town in Nottinghamshire, England. It is also a sobriquet for New York City first used by Washington Irving in the Salmagundi Papers (1807) as a satirical reference to the English town.[citation needed] The nickname was later appropriated by Bob Kane for Gotham City in his Batman series of comic books.
Gotham may also refer to:
- Gotham, a poem by Charles Churchill written in 1764
- Gotham!, an album by Radio 4
- Gotham (album), by Bauhaus
- Gotham Awards, an independant film advocacy organization based in New York
- Gotham (band), entertainers
- Gotham Gazette, a journal in New York City
- Project Gotham Racing, a video game
- Gotham Records, an independant record label founded in 1994
- Gotham (typeface), a typeface by American type designer Tobias Frere-Jones.